Doghouse Winter’s Tail

Formerly brewed at Doghouse
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Redruth, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at NWAF 2009. A hazy dark red-brown beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma has notes of malt and milkchocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and milkchocolate. Nothing special.

Cask @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester. Pours a dark amber brown color wit a small off-white head. Has a rich malty fruity aroma with hints of caramel. Slightly sweetish riach malty caramel flavor with some fruity hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.

Cask (gravity) @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester, England.
Clear medium amber brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, milk chocolate, prune notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090123]

A Mes rate. Gravicask at National Winter Ale festival. Very dark brown with no head. Strangely meaty, plenty of fruity malt, slight caramel and the alcohol is showing but it’s far from offensive. It’s a little run of the mill but it’s certainly pleasant enough.