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Black Sheep Ale

Black Sheep Ale

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A Bitter brewed by
Black Sheep

Ripon, England

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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4933.18/5.03.18/5.04.4%84 English pint P  Stats

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."

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 kempicus (145), Wellington, New Zealand
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20

Mar 20, 2008  
caramel malt and slight hop on the nose, nice low carbonation and refreshing on the palate, very very dry finish.

 weaselkenievil (217), Bedfordshire, England
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Jul 5, 2008  
Dark gold kind of colour with slightly off white head. Finish is quite dry and bitter. Average, drinkable though. I’ve drunk a pint of Crystal though, the beer not the champagne.


 BeerGestapo (229), Windsor, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Jul 4, 2008  
(England) Pours a nice hazy orange color with a med off white head. Aroma is of spices and citrus with a dry malty taste. The finish is slightly bitter and there is some nice lacing in the glass. Not bad at all, But i was hoping for a bit more here.


chrismwpcs (66), South Hedland, Australia
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/103/56/20
Jul 1, 2008  
Erm well not bad I suppose? You could say it is a gutsy beer. I won’t (unusual) take the piss out of it as it is a pretty reasonable beverage that in my opinion is a one or two bottle drink and not a session beer.


 cellar (125), Dublin, Ireland
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/102/511/20
Jul 1, 2008  
Clear deep amber, nice lasting head, notes of fruit, caramalt, dried fruit, grains, yeast. Sweet and bitter in good balance, bitter aftertaste and unfortunately a littte metallic


 azlondon (455), Greater London, England
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/510/20
Jun 30, 2008  
Appearance: Brown. Nice amount of head. Golden brown. Aroma: Hopsy. Some malt. Aniseed. Taste: Hops and malt. Fresh. Bitter aftertaste. Info: 500ml bottle, 6/9-2006, 88/500




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