4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20Drank this at the Bees Knees at the Springhead Brewery itself. This could be my lounge! Couldn’t wait to taste it but spent a few seconds on the smell...caramel, chocolate, toast, earthy, vanilla. the opened my eyes and had a look...black, clear, tan foam,. Then the first mouthful...medium sweetness, lightly bitter.... full body, creamy, soft carbonation, long finish,
The best at the brewery...but my opinion!
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours dark brown with a medium off-white head, aroma rich with nutty malts: caramel, coffee, toffee, chocolate. Sweet malty taste much the same with a lasting lightly bitter finish, smooth and creamy but not enough to compare to real Belgian styles.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Wetherspoons; deep black small with a coffee and roast malt aroma. Quite pleasant taste coffee, winter berrie, with a slight sour background.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask@theimperial. Walsall. Dark Brown with beige head. Aroma is of dark Malta, not very strong though. Taste is of caramel, treacle and dark Malts. Medium bodied, would be better if it was a thicker body. A good beer but not a style I would drink normally.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: SEP 23, 2012 Take 2 - Cask @ JDW Elgin 200912
It’s going up to 3.6 - really nice good flavour malty beer
Cask @ The Five Swans JDW, Newcastle 070912
Caramel brown. dense off white head
Aroma - dark caramel malts, some dark toffee malts, hint of chocolate
Taste - dark caramel malts, toffee, mainly malty, caramelised sugars, touch of mars bar, nice malt flavours, fairly simple but does it well
Palate - soft carb, medium body. Smooth and malty. Finish as main flavour, bit more burnt toffee malts, nice lingering toffee malt
Overall - A pleasant, easy, good tasting malty ale
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Smoky caramel malt aroma. Chestnut with a thin skiff of bubbles. Smooth, smoky earthy malt flavor. Medium body, flat carbonation, Really nice easy drinking beer.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Slightly burnt toffee malt and hay aroma. Chestnut with small head. Lightly smoky toffee malt and mildly bitter grass/hay hops flavor. Nice body. A very nice old ale.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
bottle, smells amazing, roasty aroma, with chocolate and choffee tones. dark amber, ruby,clear, nice compact brown foam, medium bitterness, medium sweetness, not many from the aroma is in the taste, good balanced flavour, medium body, slick feel, average carbonation, long finish, nice beer
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle pours deep brown with ruby tinges - thick beige head . aroma I found a touch metallic with malt underlay . medium carbonation . has all the appearance of a good belgian ale but the similarity stops there . taste is some malt and burnt sugar but not too sweet - a hint of toast in the finish .it is not bad at all - could quaff a few but lacks the body , punch and alcohol of a belgian ale . would love to try an uprated version
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask, Forum Bar, Sheffield. Hazy brown, chocolate and caramel aroma. Fruity, cherry and raisin, sweet with cloves on the finish.
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