Cotleigh Albatross

Brewed by Cotleigh
Style: English Strong Ale
Wiveliscombe, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

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Cask-conditioned at the Bag ONails, Bristol 29/04/09. Amber coloured with a slight white head. Sweet, barley sugar aroma with a touch of hay and grassy hops. Surprisingly easy drinking given the ABV, with more sweetness, a touch of grainy malt and a lingering bitter finish. Ok.

Cask@Old Bank, Turku. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is very fruity with some mild hints of wood and some yeasty and herbal notes. Flavour is wood, fruits, some sweet maltyness as well as mild yeastyness.

Cask@Old Bank, Turku
Hazy copper color, good off-white head. Fruity, but sticky nutty aroma. Light to medium-bodied. Nutty, woody, a bit sweet-honeyish flavor. Honeyish aftertaste. 6.5% ABV was suprise to me. Tasted more like a typical 4.5% bitter.

Cask (gravity) @ The 16th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2010, Reading, Berkshire England.

Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy - fizzy, open, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dusty malt, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, fruity orange. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, toffee, sweet malt, dusty malt, phenol, peppery. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft, finish feel is light alcoholic - phenol. [20100430]

Cask gravity at The Bell Inn, Ivychurch, Kent. Beer of the festival for me. If you wanted to construct an English Strong Ale, this is what you would hope to come out with. Mid gold colour. Good syrupy malt, but not overly sweet/syrupy, peppery English hops on the finish. Sweetish and rich on aroma. Pretty full on in the mouth, but I loved it.

Cask at The Wenlock Arms. Amber with a frothy head. Fruity aroma. Good bitterness, some apples flavours. Has something to it.