O’Hanlon’s Royal Oak

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Brewed by O’Hanlon’s
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Exeter, England

Serve in English pint

bottled
available

on tap
unknown

Local Distribution

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RATINGS: 282 WEIGHTED AVG: 3.34 EST. CALORIES: 150 ABV: 5%

COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Cask: Occasional. Also available bottle conditioned, mainly for export to America.
Has been seen as Royal Oak Pale Ale and Royal Oak Traditional Bitter.
Ingredients: Optic Pale, Crystal, and Torrified Wheat malts; Challenger, Northdown and Goldings hops.
"Royal Oak is a pale ale of noble character in the grand tradition of British country brewing. Classically deep amber, rich in malt and fragrant with hop aroma, it’s a rounded, soft ale of beautifully balanced complexity and lasting finish."

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2.7

AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20

mabel (4129) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - JAN 18, 2008

[1011-20071229] 500mL (w/ jerc). Smells like grainy poo. Cloudy, dark brown body with a medium-lasting creamy white head and nice lacing. Bitter grainy malt flavour. Medium body is fairly smooth. Disgusting aroma.

3.1

AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20

SSSteve (2923) - Atlanta, Georgia, USA - JAN 13, 2008

murky brown with a large whipped cream beige head. aroma is lightly soured with notes of apples, hops, wood, and light fruit. flavor is woody, fruity(apple, pear). creamy palate. medium bodied.

3.1

AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20

blankboy (4288) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - JAN 8, 2008

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange-amber with a large mostly-lasting fluffy off-white head. Very mild aroma and flavour of light caramel malt, fruit, faint hops with a touch of funkyness. A bit of sourness in the flavour as well and an average bitter finish. Average bodied. I was expecting more from this beer, I thought it was just O.K.

3.4

AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20

Beer Snob (457) - Ontario, CANADA - JAN 2, 2008

Very nice and very easy drinking. Dark red/orange. Aroma included some apples and some sweet malt. Nice hoppiness and mild residual bitterness. It disappeared really fast. A good sign indeed.

3.2

AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20

JohnBarleycorn (537) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - JAN 2, 2008

Bottle. Cloudy amber/orange. Refreshing, hop aromas with accents of pineapple and melon. Somewhat fruity flavour and pleasant-but-average palate creates a nice experience but needs more malt and depth to take things to the next level.

3.7

AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20

Jan Primus (160) - Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA - JAN 2, 2008

Amber colour with a generous, rocky head. It is malty and slightly grapefruity bitterness. Very pleasant beer.

2.5

AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20

jerc (5446) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - JAN 1, 2008

Bottle from the LCBO. Amber body with a small creamy white head. Grapefruit vomit aroma - WTF? Something else I don’t feel like deciphering after the first impression. Moderate bitterness, grapefruit, sweet malt undertones. Average palate. Weird. Flavour is much better than the aroma, but is still just okay. It is possible this is a bit off, but I’m not sure how.

3.3

AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20

Miksu (3887) - Jyväskylä, FINLAND - JAN 1, 2008

0.5 l bottle. Slightly hazy dark amber color with small head. Sweet and sour aroma with flowery and fruity hops as well as wild yeast. Sour, bitter, fruity, biscuity and berryish flavor with horsey notes of brettanomyces wild yeast. The wild yeast character might not be intentional but fits fairly well to this beer.

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