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Brewed by Hepworth
Style: Brown Ale
Horsham, England

Serve in Dimpled mug

Pours a murky orange with a very boozy aroma. The taste is thin with not much complexity. It’s fairly flavorless up front with a tiny bit of nut brown hints at the finish. It’s ok just a little bland for my tastes.

16.9 oz. bottle- Pours a hazy dark orange with a quickly disipating head, it produces a rim of big bubbles, kind of ugly. The aroma is sweet sugary, nuts, a little hops, and caramel malt. The taste is roasted nuts, caramel malt is prominent, sweet syrup with a mild dry finish. Body is medium, carbonation is very soft. Overall decent, but not what I was hoping for, the beer doesn’t seem finished fermenting to me.

12/24/11. 500mL bottle. Clear light amber pour with a small barely off-white head that cuts to nothing and barely laces. Very plain bready aroma with touches of caramel, but not much else. Very sweet malty flavor with caramel, a touch of nuttiness and even a small bit of sour. Blech.

Beers of advent, day 1. Bottle that doesn’t quite fit in a pint glass- bonus point. Pours coppery with an undulating cream foam that soon retreats. Caramel through a rusty tea strainer, muted cabbage, egg custard, apple peel and sourish GK/Bateman’s-type aroma; weakly sprinkled with aniseed, all very sensible and English. Dull, faintly aniseed-accented; notes of stale boiled sweets of unidentifiable flavour, green apple peel, peppery alcohol. Oak-like caramel and shortbread afters. Tinny streaks. No real malt presence; not enough to qualify as a brown ale in my book, although it is brown-ish, admittedly. A watery brown bitter that could be mistaken for GK IPA or John Smith’s. Pretty generic brewed-for-export stuff and the kind of beer that gives English beer a bad name abroad.

Caramel and nutty in aroma. The flavor is mainly caramel infused with an almost ESB fruitiness with a relatively thin body. Not bad, easy to drink but a bit thin.

Cider brown with nut and apple notes and oxidized British yeast. Not many spices detected. $2

Bottle. Dark amber with beige head. Citrus fruit, a little hop and a little malt makes up a balanced aroma. Malty flaovur with lemon, grass, caramel and a nice bitterness.

Bottle@John bull pub.Pours deep golden with a small white head.Aroma is fruity with some malty and roasted notes.Flavor is sweet and fruity with some malt and licorice.Medium body, average carbonation.