Moor Old Freddy Walker

Brewed by Moor
Style: Old Ale
Langport, England

(Draught at Pikkulintu, Helsinki, on 2009-09-05) Black. Small tan coloured head. Liquorice and roastedness in aroma. Full bodied and oily palate with medium carbonation. Malts, sweetness, roastedness, liquorice, coffee, fruitiness, chocolate and bitterness in taste. Roasty and bitter aftertaste.

66 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a fully gone head. Aroma is hardroasted, light metallic and chemical. Smooth roasted, chocolate and breadish flavoured. Light acidic note from the hardroasted flavoured finish. Light bitterness too.

Bottle from Beermerchants. Pours black with a nice tan head which dissipates within a minute of pouring. Lovely aromas of dark chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, caramel. Flavours of dark chocolate, brown sugar, licorice, roasted malts. Finishes nice and malty with a slight bitterness. Leaves a pleasant warming feeling in the throat.Cracking effort!

Cask, GBBF Deep brown beer, powerful aromas of tinned fruit and boiled puddings. Excessively sweet flavour ruins otherwise attractive taste. Ultimately though, this cloying, overpowering sickliness spoilt it for me.

Cask at Battersea Beer Festival, 11th Feb 2009. Pure black with not much of a head. Rich, wine-like aroma with evident alcohol but tempered by sweet molasses and malt notes. Good taste of stewed fruits, sultanas and tart berries. Palate for sipping not quaffing. Good stuff.

Tasted at Gallows Bird RALE 05. Dark black colour. Sweet taste with hints of vanillium and prunes. A very nice one

Cask (Gallows Bird, Espoo, RealAle05)
Barley-wine-like sweet aroma. Sweet and fruity in the taste too, and undeniably quite strong. We blew hot and cold during this one. At it’s best it was fantastic (3.6+), but it was a bit over-powering, and we lost the details after a while. Should rerate.

Matured for 6 months in cask (these Moor beers mature at a steady rate but still retain an incredible freshness about them), this is a beaut. Very dark, close to black with a head the colour of the crema of a well made espresso. Roast and smoky aroma with some cherry and prune fruit alongside some earthy hops and if you really look for it a citrus note (found after 3 pints, but found again when sober!). Good mouthfeel and carbonation with a creamy but full body. Obvious flavours of coffee and chocolate are in abundance with vine fruit, liqourice, smoke and generous bitterness. Lasting smokey, fruit, liqourice, bitter finish. A rich well matured fruitcake of a beer.