3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at GBBF 2011.
Clear dark brown coloured with a small off-white head.
Fruity aroma of caramel, dried fruits and hops.
Sweet and fruity flavour of caramel, hops and dried fruits.
Dry hoppy finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
330ml Bottle - Dark brown in colour. Marzipan, fruitcake, almonds and malt in the aroma. Rich and fruity taste with notes of fruitcake, nuts and toffee standing out.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at GBBF 2011, Wednesday. Black - offwhite head. Dried fruits, nutty, berries, licorice, sweetness, raisins, dark fruits, amber malts, caramel.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 10, National Winter Ales Festival, The Venue, Sheridan Suite, Manchester, England.
Alc. 5.5%. Clear dark brown color with a average, creamy to frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, berry, smoke notes, moderate hoppy, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, sweet sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. Quit alcoholic of a 5.5% beers but maybe the program was wrong and it is 7.6% as on ratebeer ! [20100120]
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask. Took this down as 6% ABV. Pours an opaque dark brown with an orange hue and an off-white head leaving laces. Sweet/tart aroma of wood and hard roasted malt. Quite full-bodied, low carbonation, licorice, hard roasted malt and cough syrup. Rather alcoholic finish. 200110
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask. A hazy red-brown beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma is very malty combined with a note of caramel and a touch of alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and alcohol, leading to a dry alcoholic finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
From cask. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is caramelish, sweet and toffee. Sweet, toffee, caramelish and slight roasted malty flavoured.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
3rd December 2009
Pigs Ear. Clear very dark brown beer. Softish palate, a bit dry. Rich malt with a slight dark feel. Not bitter. Very well balanced with rich dark fruit. Finishes with more dark character malt - almost coffee like. Light and dry.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Stillage at NWAF The Venue, Miles Platting 20/01/2010 (ABV 5.5%)
Malt and fruit aromas. Dark coloured and rich on the palate with some alcohol present. A hint of bitterness in a slightly burnt roast malt finish.
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