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

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RATINGS: 30   MEAN: 2.64/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.66   EST. CALORIES: 246   ABV: 8.2%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Cask; Also available in pasteurised bottle.
Classic triple winning strong pale ale brewed to the original receipe using the best quality ingredients.


2.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
tlind2 (839) - Helsinki, - OCT 30, 2008
500 ml bottle. Deep amber color, off-white head. Fruity hop aroma with some alcohol. Flowery hop flavor with some juicy malts and noticeable alcohol. Nice caramel finish. Thick mouthfeel. Complex beer, but not a personal favorite.

1.5
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 3/20
laiti (1675) - Tampere, FINLAND - JUL 27, 2011
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.

1.6
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 4/20
Brandman (1067) - Helsinki, FINLAND - DEC 29, 2010
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.

2.6
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 11/20
tommann (1448) - Dudley, West Midlands, ENGLAND - JUL 28, 2010
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.

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
DruncanVeasey (5147) - NUNEATON, Blue Square Prem, Warwickshire, ENGLAND - JUL 13, 2010
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.

3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
RichardGretton (3759) - Leicestershire, ENGLAND - JUN 8, 2010
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.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
leaparsons (6324) - Leicester, Leicestershire, ENGLAND - MAY 26, 2010
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.

1.5
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 2/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 4/20
rosenbergh (3486) - Helsinki, FINLAND - JAN 6, 2010
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.

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
imdownthepub (7473) - Banbury, Oxfordshire, ENGLAND - NOV 25, 2009
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.

2.6
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
fonefan (24928) - VestJylland, DENMARK - OCT 5, 2009
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]

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
Papsoe (22987) - Frederiksberg, DENMARK - SEP 17, 2009
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


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