Shepherd Neame Spooks Ale (Bottle)

Brewed by Shepherd Neame
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Faversham, England

Serve in English pint

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Smell of rich malt and yeast, marmite. Pouts a medium creamy off white head. Copper colour. Light carbonation. Taste is very malty, spicy hop with some toast. Short bitter finish. Wow, great beer with tonnes of character. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Medium brown with a soapy lasting white head. Smells of chocolate roast, caramel and some cinnamon. Medium frothy body. Sweet caramel roast with some light fruit. Light hint of citrus. Biscuit. Straight up delicious. Has such a sweet delicious caramel malt that it keeps me coming back.

Very clear, red body with small creamy head. Fruity aroma, with red apple, some citrus and grapes, together with a malty base of cinnamon biscuits. Smooth and very drinkable, medium bitterness, especially near the end. Aftertaste is a bit short. Enough flavour to keep sipping and that’s fine at this low abv. (50cl bottle, 4,15 EUR)

Rödbrun färg, lågt skum. Knäckig doft, fruktkaka, russin, rostad mandel. En doftbild som jag förknippar med engelsk öl som är ett par procent starkare minus alkoholtonerna. Riktigt fin. Smaken avslöjar att det är 4,7%. Lätt ganska torr kropp, murriga smaker av höstskog, lite mineraler, torkade apelsinskal knäck och en för England ganska markerad beska. God men doften lovade ännu mer. Ändå en strålande special bitter. Helt min kopp te.

biscuits, malt and sweetness all poke through the maltiness in this one. Enjoyed it - for a ’wee seasonal one it was nice and would certainle have again.

Bottled 04/06/12. A dark brown coloured beer with a whitish head. A full malty aroma with coffee and husky grains. Really welcoming. It’s very tasty too and beautifully balanced in the mouth. Nice late bitterness. Crunchy malts. A bit of berry, a bit of chocolate orange and a bit of toast. This is as good a SN beer as I’ve ever had.

Lovely malt, bisquity, as the labesl says. I thought this was filled with fruit and spices, but it is an old fashioned beer crafted with hops and malt. Clear amber color. Bittersweet, full of flavour. Englighs hops, English malt. I’d try this with a curry. A pleasant surprise. Bottle from Systembolaget.

Bottle at home in London with Lyoli. Pours clear garnet with a soft, off-white foam head. Holds a doughy, toasty malt aroma with hints of dark fruits. Light to medium sweet flavor with light, leafy bitterness, light caramel, dry toast, berries. Light to medium in body with average carbonation. Faintly dry finish with some leaves, caramel or toffee, toasted sugar. Not at all bad.

500ml Brown bottle, best before Aug 2012, poured into an Abbot Ale glass tankard in Oct 2011. Looks really good, lovely red hue to its chestnut brown body a full, deep slighlty off-white head sat on top. Hops in the aroma, was expecting a maltier smell because of the colour: the rear label does mention ’a particularly fruity hop’ being added at four different stages of the brewing process. That’ll be the reason I could smell a citrusy hop presence then! The taste however is maltier than the hops, with a roasted biscuity, toasted brown bread feel to it. There is a sharper, bitter finish after the initial malt taste, those hop obviously finding their feet towards the end of the gulps I was taking. I was hoping for a more creamy, richer body to be honest, but it wasn’t a bad beer in any way, just not as smooth as I’d hoped for.

Aroma of chocolate biscuits with a spicy hop edge. Amber with a reasonable head Biscuity flavour witha slight hop bite.