1.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Amber with a small white head. Aroma of caramel and diacetyl. Sweet and cloying flavour dominated by diacetyl
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle 50cl. @ Chriso’s pre GBBF Shindig ’09.
Clear medium to dark amber color with a small, fizzy - virtually none, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, nutty, roasted and chocolate notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090801]
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 6/20
Bottle at Chriso pre GBBF tasting 09. Amber, lasting off white head. Oxo cube malt aroma. Poorish. The malt doesn’t seem to be properly attenuated and doesn’t quite fit it.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle at Chris-Os Pre GBBF 09 tasting ... copper .. light toffee malt nose ... light easy toffee malt.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle at the legend of chriso’s pre GBBF09 tasting. Alround rating: Brown malt, bit gariny, iodine bitterness. Acht!
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. Amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is swwwt plummy wood along with grass and flowery notes. Flavour is quite much the same, quite graainy and rubbery in the finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle picked up at Bellingers, Jet Garage, Grove near Wantage, Oxon consumed 14-10-08 Pours murky brown, very lively pour with light beige head. Malty brew with some bitterness, some hoppiness flushes through at end.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: SEP 26, 2008 Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Dark ruby, rocky head. Ashy nose with late autumn plums and licorice. Dry and fruity with ashy hoppiness. Light bodied with rounded mouthfeel and a sprakling tingle. Roasty with gentle flavours of day old coffee. Lingering ashy bitterness. A rustic, well drinkable bitter.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Pours dark amber with an enormous tan head. Smokey malts aroma. Taste is very malty with some earthiness. A bit watery. Drinkable.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Hazy brown with a yellowed foam. Aromas are sweet malts with citrus. Quite yeasty with light hops. Flavours are toffee malts with some wheat. Earthy in its hops. Quite traditional.
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