Black Sheep Monty Pythons Holy Grail

Brewed by Black Sheep
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Ripon, England

Light amber color with a thin creamy off-white head. Aroma is lightly sweet and floral - a touch of honeysuckle? Flavor has a touch of malt on the start, but falls quickly to a more flat bitter flavor. Lightly creamy mouth, some honey tangerine and roasted marshmallows try hard to peek through, but the dry hop presence overpowers in the end. Not as bad as I remember from the last time I had this, but still a dissapointed recipe in an otherwise well-made beer.

Bottle. Not bad at all, quite pleasant on both the nose and palate, Little or no head or lacing, but quite full on taste, with slightly bitter hops predominating.

Bottle. Pours amber with a white head. Smells fruity. Taste mildy hopy with a nice bitter finish. Beer goes down very smooth. Comparable to Bass Ale.

Bought just for fun. Crushed with Jakebra. Unfortunately not a good beer.

Pours from 16.9 oz bottle a cloudy amber with a medium sized, rapidly fading head. The aroma is light and smells mostly of malts with a touch of yeast and hops. The taste is dry and malty with a lightly bitter finish. Somewhat typical English beer, nothing too special here, sorry.

50cl bottle from Willow Bend Liquors (Tampa, FL). Pours a generally clear amber color with a one finger frothy white head. Aroma is sweet malt, ripe fresh fruit, some hops. Maybe some notes of honey, raisins, plums and syrup. Flavor is sweet malt and caramel at the beginning but transitions to somewhat sour malt and wet hay as I sample the pour. Light body with a generally watery mouthfeel. Somewhat sour, bitter finish. Lacks body and distinctive flavors.

Bottle, Legendary Lancs Heroes, Crosby. Didn’t have especially high hopes for this for some reason, but I was pleasantly surprised...Appealing amber colour with a white head. Fruity, sweetish malty aroma. Malty toffee tinged flavour, with a dash of hop. Clean tasting and refreshing with a dry finish. No major grumbles here at all. Why tie a beer into a film which is more than 30 years old though ? Crap idea, doubtless cooked up by a chinless marketing exec, but not a bad beer. In the words of the Frenchman.... I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! That’s my 2 Fiddy up !

Bottle (500ml). Poured a golden orange with a averaged sized frothy, white head which was mostly diminishing. Aroma was of spicy/earthy English hops (mild) with butterscotch, toffee malts, sweet biscuits, orange citrus, tangerines and some honey. Flavor was a light grassy hop bitterness with floral notes, dry biscuity malts, English marmalade, orange citrus, some honey, light notes of toffee and a spicy finish. Medium bodied with medium carbonation, a dry spicy mouthfeel and a good finish.