3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
500ml bottle (BBD Jul 2013) drank on St George’s Day 2013. Poured into a UK pint sleeve at home.
Good amber body with a head that was both creamy in texture and colour.
The nose was caramel sweet and so was the taste, it did however have a drier semi-hop finish to it.
Body-depth was average; would have liked a bit more umph to be honest.
I liked it: my sweet tooth is a sucker for caramel induced malty brews!
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Orange with a small head.Fruity and slightly bitter. Quite pleasant but nothing inspiring. Think this is one of the breweries who in the past have produced some pleasant beers but are now reeling a bit from the onslaught of the new wave of craft breweries.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 10/20
5.6% black with a thin head, fruity roast malt aroma, bitter burnt roasted malt and coffee taste.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from B+M. Bronze finely lidded with white. Aroma of buttered rust, good shrub, touch of dung, peanut butter and sesame. Actually some really pleasant unfiltered German aspects. Marzipan and dough on the palate edged with phosphorus.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottled, 500ml from The Plough, Bodicote, Oxon. Orange gold with short lived head. Heavy caramel note, butterscotch, some sharp tinny notes, thinnish malty brew. Not over keen.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle shared at the Master Builder, West End. Pours clear amber with a white head. Aroma of malt with some bread and caramel. Flavour has some fruit and butter and is medium sweet and bitter. Light to medium bodied with soft carbonation. (offline rating from April 2012)
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Clear amber body with a frothy white head. Bitter taste, with hits of corn and blackcurrant. Dry bitter and metallic finish. Nice one!
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Moderate hoppy aroma. Large, frothy, white head. Mostly diminishing longevity. Clear, orange body. Light bitter flavor. Medium palate.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
bottle from the village shop in Colyton. Robust malty body, grainy, with hints of caramel, dates, nuts and figs. Very nice.
2.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
500ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pale amber. A drinkable, caramel accented beer with moderate earthy hoppiness in the finish. A British bottled beer. Cleanly filtered, with few off notes. Unremarkable, but tasty enough and quite drinkable.
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