Wild Beer Scarlet Fever

Brewed by Wild Beer
Style: Amber Ale
Shepton Mallet, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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330ml bottle. Pours deep copper with little head. Aroma of toasted malt. Plenty of malt to begin, followed busy a sweet burned toffee middle that leads to a moderately bitter finish. Spice, toast and light smoke flavours throughout. A bit heavy on the malt and toffee for me but pretty good.

Keg at the Euston Tap - London. Pours dark, cloudy brown with a fine, off-white cream head. Well toasted bread in the nose with hints of dirt. Light to medium sweet flavor with moderate earthy bitterness, faint roast, mellow cocoa, burnt leaves. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Modest burnt pine finish with more earth, dirt and light cocoa. It is an ESB, I’d say, but the depth of character is almost miraculous. Easily one of the best (if not THE best) ESBs I’ve had. Great.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a clear amber with a dense and creamy beige head. Lovely fresh, citrusy hop aroma. Medium body, dry caramel accents with citrusy - if somewhat dusty - hop accents. Ends dry but not overly bitter. Well put together. 050413

Bottle, 4.8%. Hazy amber/brown with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, hop, pine and a little chocolate. Flavour is malt, caramel, hop, little chocolate, little toasted, pine, little grapefruit and medium bitter.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Hazy reddish brown with a lasting off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and rather hoppy - grapefruit. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 050413

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are rich malt, notes of caramel, fruits and hops.

Bottle at home from ales by mail
Pours a dark hazy ruby with caramel and apples on the nose. Full bodied medium carbonation, toffee and dry hops progressing to sweet juicy raspberries and toffee creating a long finish. Really enjoy this as a less in yer face alternative to 5am saint.

Bottle. Dark brown, hazy, small to average and fully diminishing head. Moderate, malty and sweetish aroma, light caramel and some tropical fruitiness, grapefruit - piney hoppyness. Body is medium, malty and lightly sweetish flavor, some caramel and light tropical fruitiness, light grapefruit - piney hoppyness. Finish is average, malty and lightly sweetish, some caramel and light roasted malt, light fruitiness, some piney hoppyness. OK amber ale - thought finish could use more hoppyness and less caramel (aroma/finish not in balance).

Nose is caramel, burnt toffee. Taste, is toffee, raspberry leaf tea, lots of bread, some herbs. Leads through to a very bitter finish. The beer is a bit thin. A nice beer without being exceptional, it feels like two beers combined, the red ale notes, and then the hoppy notes following. I didn’t feel they worked in harmony well enough yet. I enjoyed it though.

[keg at the Hanging Bat, Edinburgh] Slightly hazy, deep dark red pour. The aroma is bitter, slightly sour cherry and raspberry fruit, oak, dry grass. The flavours are pretty similar, with a leaning towards the sharper red fruit elements. Bitter as well, really bitter. Thin and maybe needs a bit more body though, slightly oaky and woody on the finish. Something not quite there with this one, although it’s certainly highly drinkable [27022013]