Davenports Top Brew De Luxe

Brewed by Highgate (HWBC Ltd)
Style: English Strong Ale
Walsall, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

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275ml bottle @ 7.1% ABV. Pale amber beer with aroma of caramel. Flavour is very sweet with toffee prominent. This is to the point of being overpowering and a half pint was enough. An interesting, unusual beer though.

50 cl bottle. Rated on 24.10.2008
Aroma has lots of alcohol and some solvent too with toffee and malt. Flavour has lots of stinging alcohol, some sweet malt and toffee. Way too much alcohol here.

Golden amber body, white head. Lots of butter and butterscotch in aroma, sugar and malts, too. But that’s it rest is really like drinking straight alcohol. Creepy.

500ml bottle. Pours clear golden with a large head. Aroma is very sweet and malty, a bit sickly. A bit sickly in the mouth too, sweet malt throughout, some apples on the finish. Lots of carbonation. Alright, drinkable, but I wouldn’t bother again.

Bottle from Arden Wines. Orange amber with a fine, clingy skim of foam. Bananas and cream aroma building with cherry stone and acetone. Bittersweet and almond-sodden; alcohol not immediately obvious; madeira cake and candy departing with a surprising, flash-cooked hop astringency. Suggestions of Apple turnover, egg custard and Allsorts. Cake dunked in Special Brew. Pretty evil.

Bottle. Amber beer with a soon disappearing fizzy head and a fizzy body. The aroma is weakly malt and has a hint of coriander. The flavour is strongly bitter and hopped with a malty quality. Overall a fairly basic but satisfactory strong beer.

Bottle. Golden with a white foam. Aromas are melon with toffee malts. Peppery alcohol. Flavours are toffee and brown sugar with syrup. Citrus notes with peppery alcohol. Sweet and a little bit manufactured.

500 ml bottle. Finland. HHOK4.
Clear reddish amber colour with tiny off-white head. Sweet malty aroma and some berries. Flavour is sweet malty with loads of alcohol. Quite awful, I’m afraid.

Bottled, 500ml from York Beer & Wine. Orange amber with white head. Initially quite thin on the palate, with a metallic type malty body, sharp, carbonated. Some biscuity malt and earthy hop notes do emerge from the pasteurisation and it finishes quite gently. It’s the initial flavours that push the marking down.

Bottle 500ml.
Clear light to medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090724]

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of oh6gdx. Slightly hazy amber golden with a creamy off-white head. Fat aroma of overripe fruit, hops and alcohol. Medium body, fruit and a burning alcohol in the finish. 240709