Rugby Sinner-Man

Formerly brewed at Wood Farm (prev Rugby)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Rugby, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask (handpump) at the Nags Head, Reading on 1 May 2009. Dark tawny colour. actually didn’t spot the Sinner-man/Cinnamon pun initially. Until the glass got within about a yard of my nose that is. Strong cinnamon aroma and flavour. Not much else in evidence really - the cinnamon swamped all. A bit over the top to put it mildly.

Cask handpull, The Crown, Nuneaton. Ruby with a beige layer. Medicinal dandelion and budock spiciness aroma, not completely brazen cinnamon. Wet doughy Swedish spiced biscuit, freshly dunked but with a distinct background chlorine note. Vimto-like, pleasantly spiced alcoholic concoction with no off notes. Other than the chlorine. One of the more successfully spiced English brews I’ve stumbled into. Could drink a pint without being sick.

Cask gravity at Bree Louise, Euston. Deep, ruby chestnut colour, no head. Something artificial in this, fruit, spice, cloves, red fruit. Badged as a cinnamon ale. I couldn’t drink more than 1/4 of a pint