Black Sheep Monty Pythons Holy Grail

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

500ml bottle. pours nice with pleasant colouring. A little hint of fruity flavour, which works well. Bit of an aftertaste.

Pours a clear copper bronze with a frothy, lightly-lacing off-white head. Aroma has a mildly sweet maltiness and some grassy, citrusy English hops. Body starts with a semi-full, but dry earthy malty character and bitter Fuggles hoppiness. Overall, bland, over-carbonated, and very average.

Poured with a golden color (or was it "colour" ? The head was cream color. taste was somewhat sweet, not overwhelming but noticable. Flavor was not full or rich as aroma would have suggested. Would probably taste great with baked albatross or spam and baked beans. I saved the bottle so I could hit myself over the head with it while crooning The only reason I got this was because I am such a Monty Python fan, as you have figured if you hve read such far. The beer was ok, but I am not fond of premium bitters and will stick with stouts and an occasional naked organist.

Pours a reddish/golden color with a nice medium sized foamy white head. Aroma is malts, caramel, nice hop texture, a bit of smoke, and some fruity aroma. Taste is nice and bitter with the roasted caramel malts coming through the most and a nice hop backing, liquid smoke, and a plum note. Palate is not that carbonated, slightly sticky and definitely bitter. Overall, This has a nice full flavor for a ESB. Definitely a good buy.

great name decent taste small head poured in glass good aroma just bought for name and bottle.

Hazy ambr with a thick creamy head that remained after the beer was finished. Very citrus aroma, with a sharp bite from the hops.

500ml bottle. This started well and then I got bored of it. Chestnut beer with thin beige head. Nice fruit/yeasty aroma. Bit of empty boiled sweet flavour in mouth. Raspberry fruit and caramel flavours are nice. But then it’s empty, filtered and pasteurised and lacking any depth.

I wanted to like this beer just because of Monty Python,but I found it a bit weak.Tasted like it was cut with water.Had a decent head.aroma typical,color medium amber.Tasted like it had some body to it before it was watered down to make it go longer,thus make more money.It had a bitter after taste.It wanted to be good,but fell short by it being somewhat whimpy,so i will have to try again.6/07:rerated:average head and aroma.color was nice orange brown.Looked good.The taste was kind of caramel with barley.somewhat bitter finish.seems to be well balanced,but nothing fantastic.Much better than your mass produced beers,but not up to par with the good micro-brews.This would be a good transitional beer for beginners of micro brews to drink.Definitly a conversation piece at parties.Will it get you chicks??probably not,but maybe you could use it to start up a conversation,then get the chick with your silver tongue talk.