Daleside Morocco Ale

Brewed by Daleside
Style: Traditional Ale
Harrogate, England

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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Bottle and served in my Unibroue tulip: Pours a deep mahogany with a nice creamy tan head and excellent lacing. The aroma is unique and interesting to say the least with notes of ginger, dates, toffee, star anise, liquorice, menthol, eucalyptus, wintergreen mint, herbal hops, and dusty yeast esters.

The flavor palate mostly followed suit with heavy spices on both the front and finish of the brew with a undertones of sweet malt somewhere in between. Very much in the Anchor Special Ale genre of spiced holiday beer even though this is not identified as a winter seasonal. Just enough spice to make you back away for a moment but not so much that you run away in fear. The mouth feel is dry, chalky, mineral and very woody like with such an overplay in spice. I honestly dig this beer much to my surprise. I will try it again to see if it is as good as first impressions make it out to be. (which reminds me, I still need to re-rate Traquair Jacobite Ale which is also a spicy brew that I did not care for the first two attempts at rating it).

This needs to be in the Spice/Herb/Vegetable category! Not for the faint of heart or palate.
Once again the admins were quick to make the change, THANKS!

500ml bottle from LCBO in Thunder Bay, ON pours a dark brown color with a 2 finger white head that leaves some thin spotty lacing on the glass. Aromas are of chocolate, mild spices and aromatic hops. Taste is chocolate malty sweetness with some roasted barley and light hoppy bitterness and some unidentified spices. A very well done brew and highly recommended.

A clear dark brown almost black colored beer, with a thick beige head. The aroma of some sweet chocolate with ginger , malts and some spices. The taste of liquorice juice with some chocolate, spices with a bitter hops. The aftertaste is sweet of laurel with some long bitter notes.

Pours copper with a beige head. ARoma is caramel, ginger, liquorish and spice. Flavour is caramel, ginger, liqorish, dry and light grass.

Bottled. Dark amber coloured. DNse light brown head. Aroma of light roast, sweetness, fruits and some cocoa. Favour of roast, sweetness, spice .Mium bodied. LIght roasted and sweet end.

Pours a clear and dark brown beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is malt, caramel, ginger and spices. The flavor follows the nose. The palate is sweetness and spices. Overall a beer just above average.

Tasted this in The Esquire House, Glasgow (JDW) in November 2009. Cask, handpump dispense. Dark ruby in colour with a tight creamy white head. Interesting complex aroma of spices, with nutmeg, cinnamon sandalwood and lavender. Rich creamy mouthfeel and superb lacing. Dark malts give a rich Christmas cake base with molasses, green figs, and damsons. Spicy hop resins gives a slightly bitter aftertaste but this is short lived. Malt returns in the smooth winey finish with alcoholic sweet sherry notes and four spice. A heavy and complex traditional Old Ale - not for a major session though! Interesting history behind this beer.

Dark ruby with a lasting off-white head. Spicy aroma of ginger with a touch of cinnamon and some biscuit. Sweet spicy flavour with biscuit, caramel and brown sugar

Bottle @ Early Winter Tasting, Odense, 2011. Pours ruby copper with a small white head. Ginger and spices. Caramel and mint. Medium bodied. One dimensional.

Bottle. Dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma of ginger, dark sugars, other hard spices - perhaps cloves, cassia, aniseed. Maybe even some mint. Taste is sweet and deeply but gently spicy. Quite rich but refreshing.

UPDATED: JUL 26, 2011 Bottle. Slightly chocolatey. Very dark. Light sweet. Light bitter. A bit of spice.