3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. A chestnut brown coloured beer with a whitish head. A dry nutty chocolatey beer. Orangey hop notes. Good fruit and a nice woody note. Good.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
500ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a thin head. Aroma is caramel and raisin. Taste has caramel to start and a watery raisin finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask-conditioned at the Cross Hands, Winterbourne Down, S Gloucestershire 27/05/10. Dark, reddish amber with a slight, off-white head. Sweet, fruity aroma, with some caramel, yeast and burnt sugar. Flavour was sweet, with some earthy malts, citrus and spice, leading to a decent bitter finish. Unusual and drinkable.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500 ml. Bottle Conditioned. Ruby red ale with a small white head. Well carbonated. Mallt & some sweetness in the mouth, with some background bitterness. Not a bad beer. Have tasted better but have also tasted much worse.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Dark amber with a white head. Floor polish malt aroma. Taste is sweet with some citrus and bitterness. Pretty ordinary bottled beer. It wasn’t very exciting, but it went down well enough after a day at work.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle.
Tawny beer with over-sized floaties.
Lightly boozy aroma with rich raisins and candied fruit as one may find in a grandmother’s cake.
Sweet and lightly fruited again in the mouth.
Thin and overall a bit gross. Very metallic throughout.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Amber gold with a small head. Aromas are toffee malts with tea, pear and citrus. Some chocolate, too. Flavours are maltly with caramel and chocolate. Slightly roasty with fruity notes. Decent.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Doesn’t bottle well on this evidence. Headless soupy red pour. Clear at first but tipped the sediment in to try and inject it with some....something. Vaguely roasty. The merest nibble of dusty pear fruitiness. So boring I could cry.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle Conditioned. Darkish red amber with no head, flat and souplike. Fruity flavoured dark beer with some plum and some caramel. Sweetish and light with an orange peel finish. O.k but nothing special.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Quite dark and poured with a small head.A bit caramelly with slight traces of chocolate.Drinkable without being outstasnding.
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