3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20Bottle from M & S. Pours a clear amber with a thin head. Aroma is of a nice floral hops. Taste presents the hops again and roast malts with a nice balance. Rather a nice ale with good flavours.
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Dark brown, thin off-white head; aroma is caramel, toffee, perhaps some coffee; taste is similar - toffee and caramel; some roast malt, brown bread; it’s main problem is that it’s much too thin and the flavours just don’t hang together; my first ever duff Adnams beer.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at home
Sweet nose, goldings hops i guess.
Brown clear color with reds notes.
Nice balance between, malt and hops.
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Bolton Brew.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Flavoursome enough with notes of dark chocolate and liquorice, but it has almost no head when poured and little of the alcoholic warmth you expect of a winter ale.
3.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. Pours with a very foaming pillowy head. Deep ruby red colour, spicy palate with orange peel flavours and background coriander. Warming and rich, does come across as a stronger beer than 4%.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at ChrisO Holiday Tasting, London. Pours clear brown with a light, white foam head. Aroma holds bready malts, brown bread, light berries. Light sweet flavor, mild dry berries, mild bread. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Fairly dry to finish with dry toast and further light berries. So so. Just rather bland.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at ChrisO tasting, from M&S Xmas beer/cheese/chutney pack, 30/12/12.
Lightly obscured chestnut brown with a thin off white head that clears to the edge and leaves a small film.
Nose carries toffee, dark fruit, light mineral tones.
Taste comprises dark malt, grain, light spice, toffee.
Medium bodied with soft carbonation with some bitterness in the finish.
Average fayre.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle at Chiso’s tasting. Copper / nut brown in colour. Nutty slightly appelly aroma. Moderately low carbonation. Thin with a slightly tart finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at Chriso’s tasting in London, 121230. Deep amber beer with a small beige head. Malty fruity aroma, roasted, toffee, grapes, some bitter hops. Fruity flavor, brown sugar, roasted, raisins, caramel, some hop bitterness, grapes, some vinous notes.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle from M & S. Appearance is dark caramel with a creamy lasting head. Aroma of English hops and roasted malt, also faintly of a ’good’ dark lager. Initial flavour is of hops again with a longish roasted malty finish. Overall, a nice winter beer with a lot of good flavour. Although I do feel that it has been slightly over gassed but does dissipate once in glass for a moment.
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