Cotswold Winter

Brewed by Cotswold
Style: Dunkel
Cheltenham, England

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Bottle that was passed on rather generously by a resident of Foscot, Oxon and consumed 14-03-10 Pours dark reddy brown, great clarity. Not getting the Cascade hops on the nose but their is a touch of burnt toffee. Taste is simple but fine, some toffee flavour’s pulse through a lengthy but quite restrained bitterness, touch of the boiled sweets about this, would probably be really quite decent on draught but in bottle struggle to display itself quite as it should. Its ok. A6 A4 F5 P3 Ov11 2.9

330ml bottle from Hampers Food & Wine, Woodstock] Pours deep amber with a slightly dirty looking foamy off-white head. Moderate carbonation, but not too intrusive by lager standards. Smells of dusty chocolate. Initial flavour of chocolate develops through autumn leaves into bitterness with slight metallics. Quite a short finish. Overall an OK beer, but not one I’d especially return to.

Bottled courtesy of Rick at The Woolpack. Brown with white head. Quite a treacley lager with a background of caramel, something quite odd about it. Pasteurising bitterness, lacking something that pulls it together.

Keg at The Jam Factory, Oxford. Cocoa aroma. A little dirty. OK, but the dark malts don’t sit well in the limp body and indifferent arena.

Russet brown, cap of fairly coarse white. Cranberry and rose aroma with a nice dark bread undercurrent. Wholesome dark bread flavor, a subtle tartness, lingering toasty/mineral finish. Light clean palate. Well crafted, interesting--just a nice beer. Richard’s lagers keep impressing. Looking forward to what’s next!