3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20[Cask at Milton Keynes Beer Festival 2011] Chestnut, loose off-white head. Dusty, some fruit, a little red wine, some creaminess. OK.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
12th July 2012
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Clear dark brown beer, small suddy pale tan head. Smooth palate. Very mild carbonation. Mild dark malt, whisper of toffee. Really well balanced with orange marmalade and orange squash. Whisper of red berry fruits. Finishes smooth. Nice fruits, good beer.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
A - caramel and dried fruit
A - mid brownish and gold with frothy head
T - light sweet with full bitter
P - mid and dry
O - average
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hazy tawny colour with a cream coloured head that receded into the glass. Aromas of dates and milk chocolate, but not overly sweet. Upon tasting those flavours come back up and add a chocolate cake note but also bitter cocoa. This puts me in mind of enjoying a good cigar with this (but unfortunately the Mrs is handy and wouldn’t tolerate me lighting up). A beer to make you sit and think about what you’re drinking, which is laudable.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@The New Wheatsheaf, London. Rubyish brown colour with a small beige head. Aroma is sweet and mildly toasted malts along with some roasted notes as well. Flavour is bigtime maltyness, some toffee and mild liquorice and chocolate as well. Not the stereotype old ale, but still a very pleasant brew.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, gravity, at 34th Bedford Real Ale and Cider Festival ’11. Amber. Rough malty aroma with a trace of chocolate. Pleasant and evocative. Good solid earthy malt taste. Mid bitter finish. Liked this.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours mahogany with a well-retained tan head lacing the glass. Soft, seductive aroma melding blueberry, milk chocolate coated caramel, a whisper of rauch. Slippery and nuanced with a lip-smacking interplay of well done herbal sausages, chocolate, berry fruit and gentle, cigar smoky malt. Well rounded, sluggable stuff- winner all round.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 17/20
bottle at home ... dark copper brown ... creamy tan head ... soft sweet dates... dark sugers and toffee malt nose (nice) ... litttel fizzy but not too much ... sweet caramel toffeee ... dark fruits .. green rasins ... tobacco ... i like this i like this a lot.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 500ml.
[ Courtesy of Fin ]. Clear medium to dark grey brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, grey off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted,nutty, caramel, wood, licorice notes, dusty licorice (licorice powder). Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, licorice, tobacco, dry, dusty, chocolate malt. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110108]
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at GBBF, day 3 on 3 August 2006. Cloudy dark brown appearance. Plenty of malt. Dry powdery chocolate in the flavour. Some fruity notes. More like a porter or a stout than an old ale. Rather tasty, whatever it is.
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