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Brewed by Greene King
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Bury St. Edmunds, England
Serve in English pint

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RATINGS: 1532   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.09   EST. CALORIES: 156   ABV: 5.2%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Bottle and nitro can: Filtered. Also available as "Smooth" from nitro tap.
Ingredients: Pipkin pale malt; Crystal Malt; brewers sugar; Bittering hops: Challenger; Aroma hops: Goldings and Challenger; Morland yeast.
Cask version was first brewed in 1979 by Morland Brewery to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory in Abingdon. The name comes from the MG factory’s works car - the gold speckled MG Featherweight Fabric Saloon, affectionately known as the Ol’ Speckl’d ’Un.
Brewed since 1999 by Greene King following the take-over of Morlands
Bottled Old Speckled Hen has been sterile filtered in the "Old Speckled Hen Hall" bottling facility since May 2006.


undercurrent25's rating

3.3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
undercurrent25 (868) - Barnton, Cheshire, - AUG 4, 2010
Very malty beer with a very pleasant taste, one of the best bottled beers available


most recent ratings

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Cool_Bond (475) - Eskilstuna, SWEDEN - MAY 21, 2013
Good scent that’s just right. The taste is good and also just enough. The aftertaste is good and last a little while. A really good beer, I think anyway. It quenches my thirst.

2.7
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 11/20
Migmar (65) - Hohhot, CHINA - MAY 20, 2013
A bitter that is not very bitter. Caramel and fruit mostly, gets drier towards the end.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 13/20
lesifflebiere (435) - Montréal, Quebec, CANADA - MAY 17, 2013
Tons orangés tirant sur le rose, elle présente une effervescence moyenne et un film de mousse qui persiste. Odeurs doucereuses de sucre d’orge. Le pétillant n’est finalement pas au rendez-vous en bouche, et c’est une bière mince, sucrée et maltée qui en résulte. Elle ne présente aucune amertume, et ses saveurs se limitent au plus simple. Désaltérante pour une red ale, elle n’est cependant pas inoubliable sur aucun aspect.

2.4
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 11/20
kidmartinek (2452) - austin, Texas, USA - MAY 15, 2013
This beer is the color of rich, dark caramel and pours with a large foamy head. The aroma is like hay, straw, and grass... yes, all three combined. The tsste is like an old lager with a hint of forest air and countryside woodiness. The fi.ish is a little soapy, even from the bottle.

3.5
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
Jokine (47) - Manitoba, CANADA - MAY 14, 2013
Decent beer with lots of fruity sweetness. Tastes more hoppy then malty to me. A touch of vanilla on the forefront, with some fruity apple or mango in the middle. Smell isn’t very strong, but the taste makes up for it.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
deaconmike (59) - Roswell, USA - MAY 10, 2013
Poured from a nitro can into an imperial pint glass. Mostly clear copper with one finger off-white head which sustains itself quite well. Caramel malt in the nose. Similar taste, but a little more of the toasty flavor comes through. Not really picking up too much complexity here. Mouthfeel is as you’d suspect for a nitro pour. Overall, a decent beer.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
czar (2230) - Québec, Quebec, CANADA - MAY 8, 2013
can. pours clear and dense amber with a nice light beige head, some retention and lacing. caramel toasted bread, some toffee biscuits, herbs, light diacetyls, peppery and earthy, hint of wood and blended fruits. soft carbonation - very smooth, light to medim body - malted for sure, some sweetness remaining, never cloying though, short but present earthy-spicy-peppery finish.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
mr_h (1447) - Ayr, SCOTLAND - MAY 5, 2013
500ml bottle at home - clear copper, thin bubbly white head, sweet malty aroma with a hint of fruit, no lacing, caramel, apply, moderate carbonation, slight metallic aftertaste

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
SarkyNorthener (605) - Walsall (Yorkshire Expat), West Midlands, ENGLAND - MAY 4, 2013
Bottle. Amber beer with a quickly fading head. Aroma of malts and toffee. The taste is malts, sweet toffee and caramel. A little bit of fruit. Average.

2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
VastActiv (805) - Oulu, FINLAND - MAY 1, 2013
Tap at St Michael, Oulu. Colour is clear copper with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Bitterness, sweetness, toffee and malts.


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