Bull Box Mid Life Crisis

Formerly brewed at Bull Box
Style: Bitter
Downham Market, England

Serve in English pint

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Chestnut colour with a small off-white head. Toffee and malt aroma with a fruity touch. Sweet toffee and molasses dominated flavour

Bottle 500ml.@ ChrisOs.

[ Vintage BBF 0609 ]. Clear light dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, chocolate, oxidide, light roasted. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, caramel, raisin, dusty, oxidide, licorice notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110807]

500ml bottle (ChrisO’s, post-RBESG2011 Sunday) BB2009 drunk 201108
Hmm, my notes say "oak farm midlife crisis". Dark, nice tight dark head. Slightly woody aroma. Dry, a bit nutty and marmite/yeasty. Refreshing palate. Nice dry finish. Honey. Past its BB and shows it. Sorry brewer - blame Chris!

Bottled. A deep red beer with a tan head. The aroma has notes of malt, oxidation, and metal. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, metal, and oxidation, leading to a dry oxidized finish.

Bottle @ Chris O’s. Thanks guys. Pours dark amber with a small bubbly head. Tart fruit, chocolate and ashes. Dusty. Ok.

UPDATED: JUL 3, 2009 1. Cask Handpump at the New Oxford, Salford 24/08/2007 Fruit and malt aromas. Small white head. Dark and smooth on the palate with some alcohol present. Crisp and slightly bitter roast malt finish. 2. Cask Stillage from the cellar at the Milds, Stouts, Porters & Strong Ales weekend Prince Of Wales, Foxfield 06/10/2007 Roast aroma. Mid brown coloured and slightly fruity with a bitter lasting roast finish.

Bottle. Near black with a beige head. Aromas are herbal and earthy with dark chocolate. Lightly roast malts woody notes. Flavours are molasses and dark chocolate bitterness. Liquorice with some woodiness. Smoky with some tart berry. Pretty decent.

Bottle.Almost black with a large head,aroma of licorice and hops,taste is of malt and coffee.

A dark cola brown coloured beer with a weak, off-white head. Light toasted malt nose, vinous with a hint of liquorice. A bitter dark malt taste, strong coffee and bitter chocolate, and a vinous, fruity flavour. A long bitter finish. (Cask - The Ouse Amateur Sailing Club, King’s Lynn, Norfolk).

Cask@St Albans BF 06. Quite sweet and caramelly, subtle notes of mollasses. Some green apple and some light sulfuric eggyness, which suggests it wasn’t quite as fresh/ready as it could have been. Some cereally and nutty malt notes also noticed. Tasted quite OK in the end though.