3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark oak colour with a ruby tinge. Malty aroma, slightly underdeveloped. Dry malty flavour with some toffee and caramel notes. Nothing exceptional, but not bad. Cask (handpump), Market Porter, London SE1.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Market Porter, London Xmas Crawl. Diacetyl aroma. Tastes like a weak barley wine. Rather crude.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Light caramel aroma. Dark brown with red highlights and no head. Sweet caramel and raisins in taste. Medium bodied, ok.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned - handpump - Market Porter Borough London (RB London Xmas Crawl 2004). A muddy brown coloured beer with a sweetish sulphuric aroma. A sweetish, sticky tasting beer.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned at the Market Porter, Borough Market, London..
Dark red beer. Malty and grainy.
Sampled on the Ratebeer London Meetup & Pub Crawl, December 2004. With Silktork, Chris_o, Maeib & Kook.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A mild, semi-spiced beer for the holidays. Can't remember where I drank this in the UK, so it's a good thing I took decent notes at the time. Dark and ruby reddish, this had tons o' malt. Distinctive.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
The colour of red wine, this is a smooth malty beer with hints of winter fruits. Easy going.
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