Goddards Fuggle-Dee-Dum

Brewed by Goddards
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Ryde, England

Serve in English pint

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A Mes rate: Gravicask @ Planet Thanet. Aroma is ok with a nice balance with some orange notes too. As for the rest I thought it was a let down. Lifeless and thin in the mouth and too much of an alcohol taste and no finesse at all.

A mid-brown beer made with Fuggles - how outrageously old fashioned! Caramel malt, slight roasted notes, some sweetish mellow fruit and a good lasting hoppy finish; my (admittedly terrible) memory suggests this is what a great deal of decent cask beer tasted like 20 years ago; the beer is as endearingly old fashioned as its isle of origin; a comfortable seaside deck-chair of a beer, to relax in with your feet up whilst watching the zeitgeist-surfing herd out on their exotically-hopped golden ocean.

Post-cycle pint with Octo and Keith, The Blue Pig, Wolvey, 24/05/12. Handsome, cream-capped copper. Thick-conditioned with soft layered malts; milk chocolate-coated digestives, puff of cigar. Lingers creamily with a flick of ash. Nose lets it down a little; hot plastic, cereal. Otherwise lovely.

Cask. Pours clear brown with an off white head. Aroma of dark fruits and caramel malt. Flavour of caramel and light malt with a medium bitter finish.

(on tap) Dark mahogany with white head. Aroma of dark toffee and chocolate hints. Medium body, light carbonation. Flavour balances dark toffee with gentle crisp hoppiness with a nice somewhat bitter finish. Overall a nice and rather unusual beer.

Chocolate and caramel, with a sweet and roasted bitter flavour. Dark amber colour with a medium body

Bottled. Amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is bready and caramel malty along with some floral, wooden and fudgelike notes. Flavour is caramel and crystal malts along with toffee, wood, resin and mild grassyness.

Brown 50cl bottle of cold-sterile filtered (not pasteurised) ale, best before 18 June 2011. Brought back from the Isle of Wight by a work mate. Drank and reviewed on 7 Jan 2011. Poured slowly into an ’Abbot Ale’ glass tankard. Looked great, a clear body of shining light ruby red, on top a thin white foaming head. Malts dominate the smell, semi-sweet molasses and freshly baked biscuits. The taste follows the aroma but with a wicked hoppy bite within the malty flavour. Well balanced and full of flavour, wish I’d been given more than just this bottle. Recommended to have with barbequed meats and hearty casseroles: I reviewed it with variuos cheeses and dry biscuits, it went great with Emmentaler and Goats Cheese. Not so sure about the soft Garli though (or the Olives). Really impressed.

(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm, 31 March 2012) Chestnut colour with frothy, beige head. Malty nose with notes of dark fruit, prunes, toast and spicy hops. Malty, fruity taste with dark bread, toast, raisins, prunes and a spicy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a touch of malt sweetness. Well balanced and quite nice.

Cask at Akkurat. Smooth and nice brew. Refreshing, malty cocolate and some hops.

Cask @ Akkurat. Highly drinkable, yet quite big and complex. Notes of chocolate and nougat. Refreshing grape bitterness from the hops.