White Star Afro-dizzy-sack

Formerly brewed at White Star
Style: English Strong Ale
Southampton, England

Bottled. An unclear orange-brown beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is acidic malty with notes of grapefruit, and so is the flavor, though added notes of vegetabled.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 2     Pale Yellow(1)->Dark brown(5) : 2     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 4
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 2   White(1)->Tan(5) : 2   Lasting: 1   Lacing : 1
Aroma:
Intensity : 3  
Yeast : 3   Bread : 2   Apple : 3   Tropical Fruits : 2   Soap : XX   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX Sulfur : XX  
Malt : 3   Biscuity : 2   Hay : XX   Toasty : XX   Caramel : 2   Nuts : XX   Honey : XX   Cereals : XX   Grainy : 2
Hops : 2   Noble(1)->American(5) : 1   Leafy : XX   Spicy : 1   Floral : 2   Lemon/Lime : XX   Grapefruit : XX   Orange : XX   Herbal : XX   Grassy : XX   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX  
Notes :   Peach/Apricot : 3   Earth : XX   Mint : XX   Butterscotch : XX   Smoke : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 4   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Sourness : 4   Bitterness : 1   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 3   Clean : XX   Sharp : 2   Watery : XX   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : 1   Alcohol : 3   Mineral : XX   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : 2

Comments: Immensely sweet, rough sugar nose with hard sour fruitiness, close to vinegary. Just wrong.

Golden with a white head. Fruity citrus aroma, best comparable to a perfumed soap. Acidic flavour, dry.

Bottled. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is leathery, grassy, yeasty and slightly alcoholic. Flavour is enormously leathery with some hops and yeast in it. Really out of balance and not very pleasant.

Bottle (BBF20-06-06) @ Chris_o shindig 2007. Unclear light amber color with a virtually none off-white head. Aroma is caramel, toffee, fruit, medicine, sour. Flavor is moderate sweet, medicine, stable, and with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is moderate astringent.

A Mes rate: Bottle at the big Chris O shindig. Absolute shocker. That’s honestly all I can think to say.

Bottle@chris_o. Vinegar and yeasty aroma. Hazy, dark amber color, off-white disappearing head, no lace. Sour, vinegar, probably infected.

Hazy copper, no head. Slightly sour aroma, vinegar, yeast. Rest was truly awful - couldn’t even finish it.