3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A Mes rate: Bottle at the Three Crowns, Macclesfield.
Good amber colour with a thin off white head. Reasonable bready malt aroma with plenty of caramel and some yeast. The flavour has an initial hit of brown sauce but one my palate had adjusted it fell away. Liquorice, strong caramel and a huge dose of dusky maple syrup. Think American breakfast pancakes and syrup and add length and you know what the finish does. I’m half way between liking it and not. For now I’m settling for like. Certainly one of the better Holts beers.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Pours ruby red with a small but fluffy cream head. The aroma is biscuit, caramel and malt. Quite sweet on the palate. Taste is initial fruit and nut quickly replaced by sweet burnt sugar. Caramel and butterscotch flavours are also present with a watery maple syrup aftertaste.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
[500ml bottle, Booth’s Preston] Pale reddish-brown pour with a voluminous fluffy head that reduces very quickly. Sweet, nutty aroma of malt, with a malty sweet palate. At the end of the aftertaste there’s a bitter, almost fruity edge. A very drinkable nutty bitter [18022008]
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
UPDATED: APR 29, 2011 Bottle from Booth’s, Ilkley. Ruby with beige collar. Surprisingly pleasant butter biscuit scraped with rust aroma. Fern waved in gravy taste, sucked through a rusty copper pipe. The spoiling bitterness of metal. About as citrussy as licking a 2 pence piece. Crap.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a clear copper color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with some weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Clear amber - white head. Caramel, sweetness, caramel, fuity, roasted, berries, red berries, dark fruits, light hoppy, light bitternes. Plain.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cloudy amber with a medium beige head. Aroma had toasted malt, caramel and fruity hops. Hoppy flavor with fruity, caramel and toasted malt. Finished dry and bitter.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at Papsø.
Clear orange coloured with a medium sized off-white head.
Sweet and fruity aroma of caramel and hops.
Sweet flavour of caramel, fruits and hops.
Hoppy finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden deep orange with a small white head. Aroma is roasted malty and slight breadish. Smooth malty, slight breadish and caramelish roasted. Ends dry and bitter into a dry finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
clear amber, smooth offwhite head.
faint caramelly aroma, very faint.
flavor is dark malty, caramelly, bitter hoppy balance, decent bitter, but a bit boring.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours an almost clear amber with a small off-white head. Sweet caramel aroma. Medium body, sweet burned caramel and some nuts with a dryish finish. 171210
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