 pootzboy (855), Calgary/ Kitchener, Alberta, Canada
Jan 23, 2008
In tap:
Taps a deep chestnut color with some red highlights, modest cap, soft carbonation.
Aromas are fruity-spicy lightly sweet.
Flavaor is exceptionally discreet in its use of spices and sweet malts...lovely war soft malty sweetness mingles with a spicy-fruity background and demure kent hopping...well balanced without any of the sweetness, spice or hops overpowering the amalgam of all these flavors....franklly the best Winter ale I’ve tasted this year.
azlondon (461), Greater London, England
Jul 1, 2008 Appearance: Redish brown. Just a little bit of head.
Aroma: Malt and burnt caramel.
Taste: Malt and some caramel. Slightly bitter. Warming.
Info: 500ml bottle, 29/11-2007
joey_capps (1453), Waterdown, Ontario, Canada
Jun 30, 2008 Dark amber w/ light brown ring of foam. Sweet, spicy aroma of brown sugar & cinnamon w/ background of roasty malts. Sweet, syrupy feel. Well-balanced flavour w/ a bitter, peppery finish.
mabel (1246), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jun 15, 2008 [1241-20080401] Tap. Toasted grains aroma has a bit of smoky malt. Clear, dark red amber body with a long-lasting creamy off-white head. Grainy alcoholic toasted malt flavour. Medium-full body seems undercarbonated. Excellent and drinkable.
(@ BeerBistro; Toronto, ON)
yalnikim (630), Wellington, New Zealand
Jun 6, 2008 Tasted 06/06/2008. 500ml bottle from Regional Wines and Spirits. Pours bright copper with an off-white disappearing head. Nice aroma of nutty malt, fruity tea and peppery herbs. Caramal and nutty malts carry an unexpectedly hoppy flavour - herbs, spice, and other things nice. A little old 200gsm papery note tells me the age. Long firmly bitter finish with lingering herbal note. Lollyish and bready malt notes come through later. Medium weight, light-medium carbonation. Really nice drop, pleasingly more bitter than I expected but just a little older and duller than I’d like it. I’m sure it is a cracker straight off cask.
yespr (5611), Copenhagen O, Denmark
Apr 23, 2008 50 cL bottle. Pours slight cloudy and deep amber with a lacing off-white head. Fruity and malt driven aroma. Flavour is roasted malt with a light acidic touch and a light toffee malt note. Fruity and bitter hoppy flavours following before a more breadish malt flavour re-conquers the palate. Ends medium dry and bitter. Nice and light malt spice English ale.
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