Goldfinch Midnight Blinder

Goldfinch (Dorset Brewing)
Brewed at Dorset
Style: English Strong Ale
Dorchester, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

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Cask Stillage at the Victoria Leisure Centre, Nottingham 16/10/2003 Mid brown colour slightly hazy appearance. Strong alcohol. Fruity malt finish.

Very dark red/brown colour. Sweetish with caramel, toffee and plummy fruit. Surprisingly less malty that the Flashmans Clout but, overall, had a better shape and feel to it. Cask (handpump), Tom Browns, Dorchester.

Medway Fest. Murky brown ale. There are pleasant tastes here, such as chestnut puree with a hint of smoke, but on the whole this is a loose beer with no definable shape. It tastes very much like a crude homebrew. If a friend had made it I would slap them on the back and say it was very tasty, but for a commercial brew this rather thick, crude, awkwardly sweet, unbalanced ale is simply not good enough. Poor show.

Cask Conditioned at Banbury Beer Festival. Dark reddy brown beer with a malty bubbly head. Full bodied dark roasted malts dominate this beer with a little acidic sour underbelly. A little flabby sweetness mixed in, but primerily a dark husky English Strong Ale.