3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml bottle from Coop in Folkestone. Its an ok golden ale. Bit of dusty malt, bit of hop on aroma. Quite drinkable. Decent premium bitter. Good malts, nice balancing hop. Good drinkability. Some decent yeast character. Yep, Id buy it again.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at neils from his local co-op ... copper .. sweet toffee malt ... little bock like nose... malty metalic malts ... metalic hop linger.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. A dark brown beer with an off-white ring of head. A dry, slightly fruity aroma with boozy notes. Dry in the mouth. Malty and woody with bits of dusty chocolate. Reasonably interesting, but not overly flavoursome.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Bulko Co-op. Bronze with a fine spotting white head. Hazelnut, dusty choc Hobnob, hedgerow fruit and oily hop aroma. Fudgy and Hobnob malt balanced (robustly) with bitterness, berries, some cask. Thick with character, biscuit and hop richness. Solid.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml bottle from a co-operative shop in Tayport, Fife. Dark amber body under a decent off- white head. Light smell of fruit and berries. Fruitlike malts in flavour added by late orange on a mild spicy background. Crisp and dry in the mouth [02.11.2008].
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml bottle from a local co-op store. Reddish amber in colour with a slight, off-white head and plenty of carbonation. Sweet red fruit and caramel aroma with a hint of earthiness. Flavour had plenty more fruit, some chewy biscuit malt and a balancing long, dry finish. Good.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Dark bronze beer with a strong head. The aroma is slihgtly undescribeable, I will leave it as bubbles and mildly caramel. The flavour is very well hopped, dry and caramel. Overall an average beer.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle, Co-op. Dark copper colour, off-white head. Aroma of caramel malts and slightly hoppy. Flavour has sweet caramel malts. Dry finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle, from Co-op Mablethorpe. Deep copper bronze, thin but lasting white head and gentle condition. Gentle sweet toffee, vanilla and hazelnuts in the nose, again sweet in the mouth with an earthy edge and a touch of fruitiness although some hop bitterness emerges with time, finish is all burnt toffee and dry bitterness with low sticky sweetness lingering.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
<i>500ml bottle from my local Co-op store.</i> Copper with a ring of off-white head; damp straw aroma; sweet and sour fruit and chewy caramel flavours, quite lively in the mouth; dry, nutty and malty finish. Warming and very pleasing.
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