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Brewed by Black Sheep
Style: Bitter
Ripon, England
Serve in English pint

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution

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RATINGS: 702   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.18   EST. CALORIES: 132   ABV: 4.4%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Bottle; Pasteurised.
"Beers for bottling are drawn from brewery conditioning tanks and transported by road tanker to our bottlers. There they are chilled, stored for ten days, then filtered and bottled. At the end of the bottling process, the bottles are pasteurised, labelled and packed."
"Brewed with many generous handfuls of choice Golding hops, it is full flavoured ale with a rich fruit nose. The bittersweet malty taste is followed by an uncompromising long, dry and bitter finish. This beer was the first, most successful, of all of our bottled beers."


2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
ApisAles (1153) - Greenbelt, Maryland, USA - APR 3, 2008
Kind of a dry dusty flavor. Decent aroma, a little malty but not much going on. Fairly flat palate. Has a bit of hops bitterness, but other than that just not much going on. Meh.

2.5
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
HogcliffeLenny (162) - Christchurch, Dorset, ENGLAND - MAR 25, 2008
Bottle 500ml. Pours a dark amber colour, with a medium white head that lasts. Has a musty malty aroma. Initially, the malt comes through, with some sweetness. This gives way slightly to a hoppy bitterness. Quite thin on the palate. A fairly average pint that I would not go out of my way for.

3.2
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
mmmbeer (987) - Austin, Texas, USA - MAR 22, 2008
Bottle poured into pint glass- poured copper amber color, light-medium carbonation, small white head formed and stayed, minimal lacing. Mild aroma of light toasted malt with a very slight hop note. Hits the mouth with a medium body, the malt is very enjoyable, hops and a sweet note on the finish- slightly bitter. Not bad, another brew for card night.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
travita (2535) - Frisco, Texas, USA - MAR 21, 2008
Copper in color with a decent head. Smell is a little malty, caramel, and slight fruitiness. Taste is a touch of hops. A little sweetness.

3.3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
kempicus (355) - Bakewell, Derbyshire, ENGLAND - MAR 20, 2008
caramel malt and slight hop on the nose, nice low carbonation and refreshing on the palate, very very dry finish.

3.1
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 12/20
Chapel (418) - Levittown, New York, USA - MAR 17, 2008
Pours dark copper. Aroma is faint. Flavor is mostly of apple. Not awful, but nothing I will be writing home about.

3.1
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
onlyrocknroll (365) - Antwerp, BELGIUM - MAR 14, 2008
Attractive dark copper with a medium sustaining head. Fairly weak toasted malty aroma. Uncomplex but refreshing caramel malt flavour with some bitterness. Initially sweet but becoming sligtly dry towards the finish. A little over carbonated. Not bad overall.

4.4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 19/20
moseslikesbeer (183) - conestoga, Pennsylvania, USA - MAR 11, 2008
aroma of malts and not much else(but this is not a bad thing). golden/light brown color with a little carbonation and very small off white/light brown head. good lacing. ok, I have to say that I enjoy a good "bitter" and hot damn! this is excellent! flavor of malts a little bit o’ hops and maybe a touch of caramel. very,very,very, smooth palate with a hint of the bitter after taste. this is by far my favorite bitter out of a bottle. I WILL be getting more of this and I MUST be carefull because this is very easy to drink. LOVE IT!


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