4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20Aroma: chocolate, nuts, caramel, frothy head, this is absolutely delicious. Another great beer from the Durham Brewery
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. Mild noswe of coffee. Pale brown creamy head. Malty roasty coffeyish taste. Average hops. A nice robust beer.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
More average brewing from Durham. Shame really. Biscuits with a little bitterness. Not very impressed. Sausage club. Roasties and gravy club. 2 clubs I am a member of. Good clubs those.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500 ml bottle. Pours a dark red/mahogany with light head of big bubbles. Aromas of wood, brown sugar, and a bit of sour mash. Flavours of burnt sugar, resin, and tobacco. Quite bitter.
3.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
500ml bottle. Poured cloudy red/brown. Excellent lacing on glass from thick head. Taste: cherry. Overall: This beer is superior to many bottled beers I have tasted recently. A most unusual beer these days in comparison to the ubiquitous american hopped golden ales currently fashionable in the UK.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Best before June 2013. A frothy tan cap that settles fairly quick, but leave a volcanic crust and adequate lacing. deep ruby colour. Toffee and dry nut taste. aroma is roasted toffee. Nice dry finish with a pleasant carbonation.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
500ml Bottle conditioned: best before Dec 2013, poured into my Abbot Ale glass tankard at home on 27 Nov 2012.
Looked impressive: huge tan coloured head on a lovely ruby body with carbonisation bubbles rising through the clear beer.
The smell was malts all the way: nutty, chocolatey and toasted brown bread.
Flavour wise again the malts rule the tastes: still nutty, but so chocolatey, toasted/roasted biscuits with fruit notes within the biscuit. There is also an undertone of hop bitterness throughout the taste which balances out the semi-sweet malty molasses that are trying to take over completely.
Well carbonated and almost ’fizzy’ on the palate.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle from the Crafty Pint Darlington Market. Dark amber brown colour, frothy tan head with a roast malt chocolatey aroma. Taste is tangy dry malt, chocolate, smokey notes, earthy. Medium bodied, oily mouth feel, some bitterness and residual sweetness. Quite drinkable.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Mr Lawrence Wine Merchants, Brockley. Brown pour with a beige head. Raisin and chocolate aroma. Chocolate, dark fruit and raisin flavour. Long dry finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
this is a pretty good British session ale. beautiful light Ruby body with a thick creamy yellow head.the nose is a light and mildly Hopped with an aroma of light citrus. Easy Drinking with a mile bitterness and light caramel malt. Overall very session able.
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