2.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Gravity at the Bree Louise, London. Dark red-copper with no head. Scent of berry fruit, dark chocolate and sugars. Well balanced, sweet on the end. Lots of roasted malts, a bit thin. Somewhat like red wine at times.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at a pub in Covent Garden. London. Amber beer with an offwhite head. Malty fruity aroma. Malty flavor, some spices, dough, apples. Malty fruity finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Freehouse Pub, London. Amber clear beer with a offwhite head. Fruity, malty aroma with some caramell notes. The same in flavour with a bit nutty notes.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle picked up at Wyevale Garden Centre, Bicester, Oxon, 20-05-07. Pours a fairly standard brown colour, sweet and malty aroma and similar flavour although really quite tasty with a little fruitiness and nuttiness in there also, a good beer.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A ruby brown colored ale. with a sweet caramel malt nose, caramel swet sugery malt.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) at The Pommelers Rest (JDW), Tower Bridge, London, February 2007. Dark brown with a ruby tinge. No head to speak of - unusual for a JDW as they usually make full use of the sparkler. Certainly aiming at a Winter Warmer style, with some chewy malt and tart berry fruits, underpinned by a robust, earthy bitterness. The overall feel is rather bittersweet - an attribute that I’ve noticed in a number of Itchen Valley beers - especially on the finish. A solid, perfectly decent but perhaps a little light and lacking in the richness of fruit that one might expect in a Winter warmer. Somehow lacked a little impact.
1 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 2/20
(on bottle thanx MartinKubert)This must be one of those Old ale that are...odd. Nice dark orange color, no aroma at all and a sort-of fruity tase; apple and plum. Gets SO hard in the bitterness, real fast in the finish. A very ugly remake of a Sam A label and no rebel of mine.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Quite watery and thin. Some straw is noticable. Medium amount of bitterness in the finish. Quite ordinary ale.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
[My 1000th English rating] An orange beer with an orange head. The aroma is malty with notes of oranges as well as a slightly dusty hop note. The flavor is sweet malty, with light notes of caramel, and again this slightly dusty hop note.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle.
Clear orange coloured with an off white head.
Aroma of malts and caramel.
Flavour of malts, caramel and hops.
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