RCH Ale Mary

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Brewed by RCH
Style: English Strong Ale
Weston-super-Mare, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

bottled
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RATINGS: 202 WEIGHTED AVG: 3.24 SEASONAL: Winter EST. CALORIES: 180 ABV: 6%

COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
A bottle conditioned version of Firebox with the addition of spice oils.
Pale malt, chocolate malt; Progress and Target hops; ginger, cloves, cinnamon, corriander, nutmeg, pimento. A dark, rich spicy bottle-conditioned ale, resonant with Christmas seasonal flavours and designed to take the chill off the coolest winter night. Ale Mary has a warm and sweet aroma of cloves, coriander and ginger. The palate provides touches of rum, raisins and sultanas, with a dry fruity finish. This ale has been exclusively brewed for us by Paul Davey of RCH Brewery.

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3.7

AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20

beervana (781) - Libertyville, Illinois, USA - DEC 20, 2005

Sampled at a 2005 Christmas and Winter beer tasting at Delilah’s, Chicago, IL. 2003 vintage. Clear amber ale having a long-lasting large off-white head. No discernable carbonation. Nice caramel and sweet malt aroma. Medium bodied that starts with light sweet malt, spice and caramel flavors. Finishes with a light malt aftertaste. This is a good drinkable malty winter brew.

0.9

AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 3/20

harrisoni (9609) - Ashford, Kent, ENGLAND - NOV 24, 2005

UPDATED: MAR 12, 2010 500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Oh dear. Murky reddy copper colour with thin white head. Soapy, spicey and not my style of beer at all. The spices seem all out of kilter with the rest of the beer. Perhaps it is just my sense of taste. Re-rate, you know what? I had to drink this again and it really is awful, the spice and perfume is just way too strong. Unbalanced and more or less completely undrinkable.

3.5

AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20

jtw (1019) - farmington, Michigan, USA - NOV 20, 2005

500 mL bottle, with tons of fruits and acids on the psssht. gigantic fluffy slightly-offwhite head that lasts forever; i could scoop it out with a slotted spoon. more balanced flavor than the aroma suggests, but only in that it is surprisingly mild. at 6% this is an easy-drinking surprise.

3.2

AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20

bu11zeye (9614) - Frisco (Dallas), Texas, USA - OCT 10, 2005

(Bottle) Pours a copper body with a large beige head. Aroma of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, toffee, sour citrus, and berries. Flavor of raisins, fruit, toffee, breadiness, and spices.

3.7

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

CampbellWilson (533) - SCOTLAND - OCT 9, 2005

Bottle from Sainsbury’s. Great spicy aroma with cinnamon and clove to the fore. Little bit of grapefruity hop. Slightly sweet in mouth with the spice still present. Well balanced finish with hop and appley fruit.

3.5

AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20

tronraner (2430) - Walland, Tennessee, USA - SEP 13, 2005

Bottle. Pours a crystalline amber color with a gigantic off-white head. It’s kind of hard to get the aroma through the head, but it seems to be raisins and numerous spices, especially nutmeg and corriander. The mouthfeel is a bit thinner than I had expected, but it embodies a rather complex flavor: the numerous spices are most prominent, and the chocolate malt comes out in the finish. A reasonably tasty brew.

2.9

AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20

barleyPops (1136) - Quad-Cities, Illinois, USA - AUG 18, 2005

bottle from Lou in our recent trade. pours a murky brown with a HUGE head. unusual flavors abound in this one, most predominant is the ginger. a somewhat bitter, dry finish.

4.3

AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20

JonMoore (1573) - Loughborough, Leicestershire, ENGLAND - JUN 24, 2005

Amber colour with large (1"), steady head. Very nice and interesting aroma; cloves, honey and fruit. Very spicey taste, cloves, nutmeg and ginger prominent. Bitter finish, creamy mouthfeel. A challenge to the taste buds, but excellent nontheless.

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