3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from b&m, Blaydon. A golden ale with a sweet caramel and toffee flavour with sweet citrus fruits and a warming finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
50cl bottle.
Thick creamy white head. Clear golden pour. Zesty taste. A nice surprise.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
50cl bottle. Pours golden with a decent head and a hint of bubbles. The nose has toffee, a slight hint of oxidation and malt. The taste has more honey and malt. The palate is medium bodied with a fairly clean finish. Overall, quite interesting - richer but less refreshing than regular Deuchars.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle from Home Bargains. Orange brown colour, reasonable head. Grassy caramel malt aroma. Perfume vanilla malt flavour. Quite creamy & smooth with flowery aftertaste. A bit better than most Caledonian bitters.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle (500ml from Home bargains):
Quite a sweet aroma, even for the style with a mix of butterscotch and vanilla firstly, followed by some sweet malts and buttery aroma. There is some lighter hops and a hint of fruit.
Pours a deep amber colour with a huge, foamy white that has excellent retention and lots of white lacing left on the glass as well.
Quite sweet and buttery like the taste with some sweet malts, toffee and some light hops as well. There is some vanilla and unspecific fruit flavours as well as some bitterness but overall it is a fairly standard pale ale taste.
Probably medium bodied, bordering on thick with a dry and creamy feel. There is low to mild carbonation and a mildly bitter finish.
Not a bad pale ale, not one of the best and certainly not as good as a bottle of original Deuchars either but still a nice tasting and pretty well balanced beer that went down easily enough. The taste was maybe slightly too basic but with not a lot going on other than the vanilla but it was drinkable.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
High percentage pale ale but with little impact to taste or flavour, which are is true but mild for this style. The aroma is mild too. Golden with no head. Has a slightly soured aftertaste.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 8/20
5,2% deep amber colour with a good head, hoppy aroma, bitter floral hop taste.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
500ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a small head. Aroma is minerally with orange and boiled sweets. Taste is dry with minerals to start but a heavy boiled sweet finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
500 ml bottle poured into an outsize tulip. Amber gold with a thin white head. Typically Caledonian Deuchars aroma - sweet toffee, raisins and resin. Like most of this brewerys beers, I get a not unpleasant hint of parma violets. medium sweet, soft carbonation with a bitter nudge in the finish. Not exceptional, but I would buy again.
3.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask by handpump at Last Post, Paisley (26 Apr 12) - clear deep golden ale, thin bubbly white head, good temperature, nil aroma, fruity, sweet, very easy to drink
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