Hambleton Toleration

Brewed by Hambleton
Style: Specialty Grain
Ripon, England

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Pours a one-finger cream head that fades quickly to a thin layer leaving some lace. Crystal clear copper color. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied. Hints of sugary nose and flavor is sugary hops and a dry finish. Okay but needs some malt. Pricey at $8.99 for a 500ml bottle from Julio’s Liquors Westborough, Ma.

Pint bottle. This is clear and is tea colored with a bit of copper. A decent two finger head lasts a couple of minutes. This smells like grain and brewers malt. The flavor is also grain and what tastes like rye. There is some fruit that is kind of syrupy and some bitterness that tastes kind of artificial. It is a bit sugary and sorghum is tasted. Despite all of that this isn’t terrible and I give any beer with such a low ABV some lee way.

Not the greatest aroma, any hints of paint is not a good sign. The taste is malty but plain with a hint of fruit and again has hint of its gone bad or of paint. Could be much better.

500ml bottle. It pours with almost no head, it srtuggles to form a white head. The beer is clear copper, no lacing. The smell is reminiscent of rotten fruit and nail polish. The taste is sweet and like poop. bad total waste of my money, too expensive, too sweet, shite baaaddd Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 08-13-2010 04:03:15

Aroma is fairly strong and crisp, like a typical lager but with a strong fruity overtone. So far, so good. It pours an inviting dark amber with an off-white head that doesn’t stick around. Flavor is - well, sorta fruity with a nasty bitter undertone. Not very drinkable. Texture is smooth and only faintly tingly. A good try, Hambleton Ales, but better luck next time.

20110117 500 ml bottle that’s been kicking around the fridge for a long time. Still medium brown with thin film of off-white head. Aroma reminds me of the sticky remains of some red vermouth that spilled on the counter during last night’s party. There is some spicy, fruity quality to the aroma, vinous, cooked orange, maraschino, sherry. Body is thin but slick and oily. Flavor is sweet, hideously so, like thinned corn syrup. Reminds me of tofurky...why bother?

Found this in a friends fridge. Had never tasted a Gluten free beer. Man do I feel bad for anyone who can’t have gluten. This is the worst beer I have ever had. Poured a decent head, smelled fruity and very sugary. It tastes like a flat cola with not enough carbonation and too much syrup. Awful avoid.

Got this bottle a couple of weeks ago at Sam’s in Chicago. I poured it aggresively and the temperature of the beer is cool but the head was small to medium with no lace. Some head did last though along with some nasty looking coagulents on the top and in the bottom of the glass. Aroma is chemicals and sour fruit. Color is brownish amber. Flavor is like the aroma but more intense. Ditto finish. Guess if you were gluten intolerant you might be grateful. Glad I don’t have to drink this tho.

50cl bottle from Beer World (Largo, FL). Pours a generally dark clear amber color with red highlights. One finger white head settles quickly and leaves little lacing. Aroma is strange with notes of bready yeast, paint thinner, faint caramel sweetness, some hints of a malt-like notes and ripe cherries. Flavor is equally interesting with a strange initial mouth impression of heavy chemicals and paint thinner that transitions to a sweet ripe cherry flavor and ends with a tart, lemon-lime soda like flavor. Generally light body with a strange funky taste on finish. Once is enough on this one.

Good bottle, fair label. Chemical, ladyfinger/vanilla aroma. Ewww. Sugary sweet, latent medium-light bittering, faint molasses on the backend. Phenolic. Tastes like faux cheap red wine. Avoid this. If you need to go gluten free, switch to vodka.