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Marstons Old Empire (Bottle) 3.03 239

Marstons Old Empire (Bottle)

Percentile
49
overall
Brewed by Marstons (Marstons plc)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB

Burton-on-Trent, England

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
2393.04/5.03.03/5.05.7%41.8English pint
Commercial Description:
Bottled - Pasteurised, 500ml.

With it’s pale appearance, strong hoppy taste and higher alcoholic strength Marston’s Old Empire comprises all the genuine characteristics of a true India Pale Ale, which were necessary to last the 3 month long journey from Burton to Bombay.
Old Empire is brewed using Optic malt, a subtle and paler grain that will allow other flavours to come through on the palate. Goldings and Fuggles hops are added to this brew, which is then late hopped with the American Cascade variety for extra hop strength.

Only ratings of the bottled version should be entered here. The cask version has a separate entry.
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 Tranquillity (1181), Espoo, Finland
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/512/20
Dec 16, 2006  
Bottle with a cool stickers that you can see through. A very well-balanced beer. Pours to a brown- almost red colour, with diminishing head. The aroma has grass, bread, cirtus and perfume. The taste isn’t bad either: Sweet and bitter at the same time with citrus, malt and hops. As I said: balanced is the word for this one.


 KnutAlbert (3217), Oslo, Norway
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Dec 2, 2006  
500 ml bottle. Full malty flavour, then the hops take over to carry it to a rassy finish. My objection is that ti lands on the malty rather than on the grassy side. Marstons don’t brew bad ales, but I rarely find them to do get it totally right.


 chmurarz (402), Raciborz now Legnica, Poland
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/104/515/20
Nov 29, 2006  
quickly fading away head,cytrus flavour aroma, very bitter but very good with it, strong ops, rich malty, pale colour, exeptional taste and well balanced


 Miksu (2241), Jyväskylä, Finland
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/511/20
Nov 17, 2006  
Bottled. Copper color with small diminishing head. Sweetish and mellow aroma of parfumy hops, citrus, mango and toffee. Sweetish flavor with salty minerals, some bitterness, caramel, orange marmelade and parfumy english hops. Allthough fulll bodied, light on malt.


 berkshirejohn (1840), Bracknell, Berkshire, England
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Nov 11, 2006  
Bottle: pours a clear golden brown colour with a white head; bready, yeasty aroma; citus acidic taste becoming more acidic and bitter with some evidence of the alcohol. Very full, and slightly oily, in the mouth. A well balanced IPA.


 JFURYCAT (795), East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/104/514/20
Nov 1, 2006  
This isn’t bad for an IPA as it has some nice bitter streaks but it seems a bit on the stringent side and some of the tones linger a bit (could be the malt content). It seems a bit perfumey and grassy but it has a nice medium-dry finish. This one seems like the best out of the four pack.


 D (551), Poland
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/514/20
Oct 23, 2006  
Golden colour, medium creamy head. Very dry finish, some herbal notes, well balanced. Very pleasant one, refreshing.


 GarethYoung (1110), Glasgow, Scotland
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/510/20
Sep 28, 2006  
[Bottle from Sainsbury’s] Caramel notes, grassy hope, a little alcohol. body is thin for the abv. dry finish with some alcohol showing again. Not great.



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