Goachers Old 1066 Ale

Brewed by Goachers
Style: Old Ale
Maidstone, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Cask at White Horse Parson’s Green. It pours very dark brown, with a thick beige head. The nose is charcoal, smoke, salted caramel and sweet pear. The taste is smoke, charcoal, leather, chocolate, varnish, caramel, pipe tobacco and salted caramel, with a big dry, woody finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Nice stuff.

Cask at the White Horse, London. Pours dark ruby with a thick, off-white head of great longevity. Sugary fruit aroma, toasty malts, crispy leaves. Has a pretty big sweet flavor with a good dose of meat. Salty, with leafy bitterness and some rich, dried fruits. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet, dry and sticky finish, leaves, toast, mild leather, mild booze. A nice beer.

Cask Stillage at The Venue, Miles Platting 22/01/2011 Slightly spicy aroma. Dark coloured very strong in alcohol and rich on the palate with a spicy nutmeg flavour. A hint of dryness in a very bitter malt finish.

Cask at NWAF, 2011. Dark brown pour with a beige head. Burn caramel, treacle and butterscotch aromas. Flavours of treacle toffee, a little sweet spice, meaty. Slight bitterness. Malty, spicy finish.

<i>Gravity dispense at Pig’s Ear Festival 2008, London</i>
Very dark brown color. This bold caramel brew is not bad, but unfortunately has a light vegetables aroma and flavor too.

Gravity, Dover BF. Dark russet brown, light tan layer of coarse head. Berries and cinnamon aroma. Chewy cinnamon malt, soft. I’d like to try this again sometime, at the beginning of a session instead of at the end.

Grav & Hand Pull At My goddaughter, Tabitha’s Christening @ The Coastguard, Kent. My Choice for the party, as well as a couple of others. Outstanding, sour, wood notes, great condition, balanced, multiple flavours, a beer that I’d love to introduce the Yanks and Danes to!

A Mes rate: Ramsgate beer fest. Very malty and yeasty aroma with an unpleasant hint of mens toilets. Muddy brown colour with a mushroom head that lasts pretty well (it’s actually much better than my description sounds). Tangy and sweet, lots of hops and malt. Not particularly balanced. Lots of liquorice in the finish. Enjoyed it overall.

UPDATED: JAN 8, 2007 Cask at Dering Arms, Pluckley Kent Dark ruby colour with nose of sweet malt, but there is certainly an astringency and hoppiness there in the aftertaste. Good for warming you up in the middle of winter 3.4/5.0 Re-rate. 08/01/07 Very deep brown with touch of russet and lasting beige head. Roasted nuts, coffee, strong dry malt and touch of syrup on the aroma. Some hop too. Gorgeous in mouth, exquisitely full, light choc malts and roasted nuts. Toasty more than dark roast. Some juicy dark fruits. Finish is dry, full and juicy with dry toast coming through most. The longer it oxygenates, the sourer the fruit becomes. Damson, sour dark plum, sour dark cherry, sour blackberry. All wonderful. Give it another couple of hours in the cask and it will be even more wonderful.

Cask (gravity dispense), White Cliffs Beer Festival, February 2005. I might be out on a limb a bit here, but I enjoyed this immensely. With all the big, sweet beers that preceded it, the lactic astringency hit the spot nicely. But it did start sweet, with the sourness kicking in rather abruptly. I was just trying to find a better descriptor for the flavour than sweet malt when this startling bitterness leapt out and grabbed me by the throat. So I can see that some might regard it as poorly integrated. But in the circumstances, the shock was quite welcome. Finishes woody and dry as a shrivelled prune. The colour is deep mahogany by the way.