3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm) Colour is dark ruby to mid brown. Complex nose dominated by malt and with hints of sweet liquorice, aniseed, fennel, tobacco, nuts and even leather. Malty taste with liquorice, tobacco, nuts and and a somewhat drier bitter finish. Complex, tasty and nice.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask [gravity] at EBF 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark. Clear medium to dark amber color with a small, fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, dusty, caramel notes, nutty notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. 120908
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tasting notes from 2002 Harbury beer festival. Dark amber with thin head. Carmel malt, fruit, and mildly hopped aroma. Farily balanced and full bodied. Hoppy front with malt body. Decent session bitter.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
50 cl bottle. Copper color - nice, fast vanishing beige head. Sweet roasted malt, caramel. Fine bitterness. A bit thin, but a very good «low-alcohol» ale.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
500ml bottle. Murky brown-burgundy with a soapy off-white/beige head. Smooth malty aroma, light caramel notes. Mellow carbonation. I can see how this could be an insipid beer to a Brit, but it’s rather refreshing to my current Midwest-influenced palate. Smooth malty tones, caramel, amber malt. Butterscotch, fishy. Not exactly World Class but I can dig it.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Brown colour and a little cloudy. Plummy caramel. Grassy earthy hops. Gentle hop bitterness. Long lasting hop flavours and bitterness. Cacao flavours. A bit sharp on the palate with some rough edges. Unpleasant aftertaste with some rather harsh hop flavours for the style.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled (thanks to the craziest bartender around). Amber colour with mediumsized slightly off-white creamy head. Aroma is fruity, flowery, a bit nutty as well as some wooden notes. Mild caramel malty sweetness as well. Flavour is very much the same in a nice balance. Quite grassy and flowery aftertaste and finish. More like a bitter than an ESB.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle on 06/28/2010. Clear copper amber body with a small off-white head. Sweet floral and light caramel aroma. Sweet floral and light pale malt flavor. Medium body with moderate carbonation. 7/3/7/4/15 - 3.6
Bottle at WBF-Raleigh on 04/24/2010. Clear copper body with a small off-white head. Sweet earthy and caramel aroma. Sweet caramel flavor on a earthy malt background. Medium body with moderate carbonation. 7/3/6/3/14 - 3.6
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at J D Wetherspoon, Southport 19/09/2003
Golden amber coloured and hoppy. Smooth malt finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
50 cL bottle. Pours hazy amber to brown with a lacing off-white head. Dry malty nose, slight nutty and toffee. Rather hoppy dry blending in with a toffee malty flaour. Dry and hoppy bitter finish. Nice.
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