4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Oct 2011: Brown 500ml bottle, poured into a German glass tankard: wonderfully coloured beer, sparkling bronze body with a creamy head of tightly knit small bubbles: it truely looked great.
This beer is about the malts, Maris Otter, they dominate the brew, and I liked it. The hops (all whole) are Challenger, Goldings and Northdown: all subtle in their usage and each adding to the aroma and bitterness of the overal feel of the beer. The Maris Otter malts aren’t burnt, toasted or even roasted in this beer, they just impart some lovely semi-sweet molasses type flavours into the brew and make it a very good beer indeed.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle. Pours a hazy amber with a large head. Aroma is bready malt and yeasty Ribena. Taste has some Ribena to start. Fruity malt finish, touch of yeast.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Amber beer with a strong head. The aroma is hopped and roasted and the flavour is very bitter, roasted and toffee. Overall a very nice strongly flavoured English bitter.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask handpull at The Brewery Tap, Derby. Copper brown with no head. Malty copper coloured style beer. Not a great aroma, ok in mouth. OK on finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Bronze and clear with some bitterness. Medium body with some maltiness making for a very well balanced bitter.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Amber with a small head. Aromas are toffee and weetabix malts with berries and caramel. Flavours are sweet toffee with dry tea and citrus. Some berries and vanilla with sticky sweetness in the malts. Warming alcohol. Good.
2.2 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. There was barely any aroma from this beer but I think I detected some honey. The flavours were slightly more developed with a bitter start and a nectarine aftertaste, however there is an unappealing sweetness that overshadows. The palate was a bit thin but had some nice carbonation.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle, Red Zebra, Derby. Poured a reddy brown colour with a fading off white head.
Malty, toffee aroma. Flavour was quite sweet and nicely fruity, with some hop bitternesss in the finish. Enjoyed this ram.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
This chestnut beer lacks much aroma. The flavour is very sweet with honey as the predominant flavour. In fact, it goes so far as to be unbalanced and cloying.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Approaching ruby, beige lid and lace. Nuts and toffee aroma with dark dark fruity hedgerow hop, wet leaves, squeeze of dishcloth. Cask, cake and chocolate. Fudge hop fusion without sickliness. YEAH.
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