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Black Sheep Monty Pythons Holy Grail 2.92 914

Black Sheep Monty Pythons Holy Grail

Percentile
38
overall
Brewed by Black Sheep
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB

Ripon, England

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9142.92/5.02.92/5.04.7%21.7English pint
Commercial Description:
Bottled - pasteurised.
Another fine addition to the Black Sheep Brewery range of premium bottled ales, our Holy Grail Bitter was specially commissioned to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Monty Python. It has a distinctive taste with plenty of fruity hops, and is full flavoured with a dry and refreshing bitterness.
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 bhensonb (4406), Woodland, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Mar 11, 2007  
Aroma of floral/citrus hop. Light amber color with a white head that didn’t stay long. Starts with fruit; stone fruit; maybe some kiwi berry. Followed by malt, and getting balancing hop in at the finish. Finishes quite dry. Really complex interplay of components. Firm mouthfeel that hardly thins at all.


 motelpogo (4399), Plzen, Czech Republic
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Nov 15, 2001  
nicely floral. lantana. well-balanced. some unfermented malt


 heemer77 (4313), Savannah, Missouri, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/102/511/20
May 1, 2004  
Pours with a large white head, and is dark gold with some amber on top. Smells of grape juice and malt. The taste is sour apple bitterness with leather, vinegar and a metallic finish. This has a light mouthfeel.


 tiggmtl (4312), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/513/20
Oct 1, 2003  
I have to say I am very pleasantly surprised by this one. Clean lemon-floral aroma with some maltiness. Big fluffy white head that slowly recedes with excellent lacing. Dark golden colour. Decent bitterness. Simple short flavour that is quite refreshing. Lingering hops in the aftertaste. Thin-medium body with a creamy mouthfeel suits this one well. Nicely balanced between malt and hops. Bottle.


 BBB63 (4283), La Porte, Indiana, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/103/514/20
May 26, 2003  
Beautiful amber color with huge rocky head, good lace and medium-bodied. There is a fruitiness on the nose that I can't quite grasp (elderberry? black raspberry?) and a hint of banana, malt, fuggles hops. Excellent balance on palate and finishes with an graham cracker aftertaste. Despite the name this is a serious beer and surprisingly good. Just could never taste the witches, maybe cause, they too are made from wood.


 cgarvieuk (4277), Edinburgh, Scotland
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Mar 3, 2007    Updated: May 14, 2008
How could one resist such a named beer. Its light ruby in colour, with a light malt fruit and a little bitter. We are the Knights who say "I’ll have a another"


 SilkTork (4221), Rochester, Kent, England
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/102/512/20
Mar 27, 2004  
Bottle. Sadly this is not something completely different, even if it is tempered over roasted testicles. All the usual suspects: amber, toffee, orange, well behaved, fizz, apple. I actually quite like it - but in this condition a quality ale it aint.


 Ughsmash (4105), Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/511/20
May 31, 2005  
Poured a slightly cloudy amber. As mentioned below, cool name, but not a lot going for it. Aroma contained some mild malts.. but nothing special. Mild malt backbone with some hoppiness, but short of what I expected. Bitter finish, but it didn’t really seem like a hop-induced bitterness... I don’t know what it was.



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