4.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
A super fresh and delicious malt-rich beer. Slight hop bite in the finish-- and somewhat unexpected-- but still a very smooth finish. Just an excellent beer, and probably the best thing I have ever tasted from England.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
500 ml bottle. Pours with light bege head. Liquid is clear but dark amber/copper. Malty aroma of roasted and caramel malts. Strong and a bit grassy hops. Some sweet fruity aromas. Bitter finish wiht a hint of nuts. Good balance of sweet malts and bitterness. Medium to full bodied, very smooth carbonation. A bit sticky finish with bitterness.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Appearance: copper color. Medium to great head with beige color and persistency.
Aroma: caramel malts, toast sugar and intensive fruity aromas like peaches, red-apples and oranges. Some nutty taste, liquory truffles, red tea and light wood smells.
Flavor: intensive caramel malts and butterscotch star, not sickly, balanced for the dryness from the toast. Nutty and light smoke taste. Sweet ripe fruitiness like red-apples, peaches and candied oranges and papayas. Other reminiscences of red-tea, chamomile and old rum. Medium to high dryness, lasting, similar to stone of peaches, orange peel and medicinal herbs.
Palate: medium body with silky texture. Low to medium carbonation.
Remark: a nice fruity and medicinal herby dryness. Some complex beer, balanced and with own-character. Very advisable.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
bottle, same foamy head, dark amber color, nice malty depth with some fruit and cocoa, very good finish
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Clear copper color and off-white creamy, lacy head. Aroma is roasty and caramel malty, slightly metallic too. Roasty malty, a bit syrupy flavor. Bitter ending. Quite full-bodied, smooth carbonation, sticky palate.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Thanks to ekstedt & friends. Copper with an offwhite head. Malty fudge aroma. Bitter with an even more bitter aftertaste. Somewhat dry mouthfeel. Light carbonation.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Beer pours deep amber color with some head. The aroma is caramel and diacetyl. The flavor was a rich and complex blend of toasty bready malts, sweet caramel malts, spices and even a little grassiness. There was that butteriness, too, that wasn’t flattering and kept the beer from really being clean. A bitter hop finish attempted to balance things out, but not sure it succeeded. All in all, a pretty good example of the style.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: MAY 11, 2008 Bottle. Pours a dark amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruity with notes of dried fruit, (a bit buttery) fudge, caramel and sweet liquorice. Flavour is dried fruits, caramel, toffee and liquorice. In the finish I get some salty liquorice (it is rather salty!). With a nice bitterness. Good one!
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