3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 13/20500ml limited edition bottle from Coop. Golden amber colour. Chocolate notes in a firm malty base. Pleasant citric tinged hops flying around. Good, solid beer. Very drinkable and satisfying. Lingering toasted malt notes.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled 19/01/13. A brown beer with a tiny off-white ring of head. Mostly malty and fruity. A decent body for its strength. Easy to drink and well balanced. Quite old fshioned but competently brewed.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Christmas Eve 2012: sharing a few bottles at home with dad. This 500ml offering had a BBD of 1 Jun 2013.
Pale amber body with a white head that didn’t excite.
Malts just about push the hops into second place throught the tasting: malty nose, malty flavours and a malty finish, all with a hop undertone that kept below the surface but stopped the beer becoming sweet or too malty.
A tad on the watery and thin side body wise, but an OK beer when you consider it has been brewed for a supermarket chain.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
50 cl bottle, Sheffield, UK via The Coop. Light amber metallic hop aroma, some cereal and herbs. Quite carbonated, a citrus ginger and honey sweetness. Finish is malty with a lingering spice.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml bottle (Co-op, London)
Stodgy aroma. Stodgy taste too. A bit dead, but it is a bottled beer. MAlty, but goes nowhere. Meh. Perfect with casseroles? I’d bet it’s better cooked into casseroles.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Copper color with a small, quickly falling head. Light metallic and earthy aroma. Light apple and spice flavors. Fruity. Moderate biscuit character. Metallic twang shows up here and there.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 13/20
4.5% amber colour with a thin head, sweet malt aroma, bitter caramel malt and hop taste, another nice one.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Co-op, Syston. Pours a nice chestnut brown, clear, very decent head. Tastes highly bitter to begin with and the finish is long. There’s a woody smokiness to this. Faint aroma. Good ale.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottled, 500ml from a Co Op in Brighton. Gold with fizzed white head. Carbonated, wet cardboard flavour initially then a sweet boiled vegetable flavour. Thin on the palate, short on the finish. Not particularly very good.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Got home from work tonight to find the missus had left me a bottle of this on the worktop with a blackened chicken breast (takeout from The Harvester) wrapped in stained kitchen roll. True love. The beer is a light brown streak of vanilla, raisin, English apple and breadiness peppered with aniseed; thin-headed, caramel-heavy with a stir of twig about it, but decent. Long-ago ground pepper, rotting fruit (apples, blackberries), brown Dolly Mixtures aroma.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
500ml bottle. Amber with a thin white head; slightly musty malt aroma; a pleasant toasty malt flavour; and some gentle bitterness and caramel to finish. Not very exciting.
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