Shoes Brewery Reviews

Theydon_Bois	2.6 Shoes Peploes Tipple Bottle split at the Cotteridge Bash, 24/01/15 thanks to Benjamin Gimbert GC. Murky orange amber with a decent off white covering. Nose is dark fruit peel, spice, earthy rub. Taste comprises tangy (likely in an infected way) dark fruit, spice, biscuit crumble. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close laced with tangy fruit. Yup - something not quite right with this one, just about bearable, wish I’d had the cask version - ISO ! Monday, February 23, 2015
WingmanWillis	2 Shoes Peploes Tipple Thursday, February 5, 2015
47574xeCD	2.6 Shoes Peploes Tipple Bottle share at Cotteridge Wines convention 24/1/15. I was requested to bring this "car crash" by Theydon, and it was overly keen to get out the bottle and onto the floor. Far too lively. Dark hazy orange, Ibiza foam party head, some fruit aroma, bready, and tangy. Not the best! Monday, February 2, 2015
The_Osprey	2.2 Shoes Peploes Tipple Bottle share at Cotteridge Wines. Cloudy brown, small ring of tan head. Aroma is very light, not getting much at all. Body is medium, foamy, medium carbonation. Taste is tangy, sour, fruity lemon vibe. Probable infection, but not undrinkable - just tastes bretted. Thursday, January 29, 2015
BlackHaddock	2.9 Shoes Peploes Tipple The same bottle shared at the Cotteridge Convention 2015 with a few others. The beer seemed very keen to get out the bottle, so there may have been an infection, as Leighton pointed out in his rating. Anyway, it poured a murky dark amber with a living tanned head. As the bottle sat by me for a minute or two the foaming head began to ooze out of the bottle neck, I quickly passed it on. The aroma had bready maltiness and dark fruits. The taste was also malt led with those dark fruits from the nose again showing, yeast hints too. Earthy finish to a beer that was surrounded by some fantastic other offerings and didn’t stand a chance in between a 3 Fonteinen Armand’4 Oude Geuze Lente and a New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red. Monday, January 26, 2015
Leighton	3.2 Shoes Peploes Tipple Bottle shared at the Cotteridge Convention 2014. Pours hazy amber-brown with a big, creamy tan head. The nose holds light dry, dark fruits, bread. Light tangy aspect to the flavor, with more dark fruits, wet wood, faint cocoa. Light bodied with average to lively carbonation. Moderate sweetness on the finish, with faint lemon, semi-dark fruits, earth. Perhaps an infection has begun to take hold here; it actually might be making the beer more interesting. Sunday, January 25, 2015
RichTheVillan	2.3 Shoes Peploes Tipple Bottle at Cotteridge wine convention; dark brown pour with a light tan head, weird like and caramel aroma, taste has some ripe fruits, candy sugar, Sunday, January 25, 2015
adlogg	4.7 Shoes Peploes Tipple Drunk at the pub, and not from a bottle where the conditioning makes it too aerated for my liking,, the beer is first class. My favourite of all, including the company. Wednesday, August 14, 2013
BelgBeerGeek	3.5 Shoes Farriers Beer Backlog from before i was on Ratebeer, 2008 at Kulminator Head: none Colour: clear caramel Smell: sherry, booze,malts, bit watery and thin but overall pretty nice Taste: indeed has some notes from the aroma like the sherry flavour, that’s pretty prominent in the beer , otherwise it’s not as boozey as i expected , nice base malt flavour , bit thin tough unfortunatly ... but overall this was a pretty good beer ... Sunday, August 26, 2012
77ships	0.8 Shoes Farriers Beer 33 cl. bottle @ Kulminator split by 4 // Okay this might sound a bit weird but I honestly think that at some point this was for some insane reason actually hand-bottled by someone and acquired by them and then freaking aged because my bottle was a 2008 Vintage // does this brewery even still exist, they appear to have gone bankrupt fast & to be honest if this is an indication of what they did, they sort of had it coming // the bottle in which this is, is clearly a Stella Artois bottle, it has the freaking symbols on // label sloppily on it, bottle conditioned, yes but not in this bottle, I think that I finally get why RR writes on their bottles that the beer was bottle conditioned in that bottle, I think that it is they who do this // I only caught a glimpse of the cap nut I actually think that it was a De Molen cap // if I was right, that is one hell of bizarre packaging // once you get past the weirdness you get a hazy orange peach coloured beer with no head, the way this poured, appears to have close to if no carb. at all // nose is heavy of cardboard, heavy vintage, sherry notes lots, boozy in a medicinal / cheap vodka kind of way, almonds. cobwebs, dust, phone book glue, fresh this must have been harsh but now // taste is like chewing on old cardboard, old sherry, vintage galore, dust, cobwebs. rotting dusty fruits & liquorice. the booze is harsh. this really like bad moonshine, the alcohol in this is not clear but of a very low quality industrial, chemical, herbal,heavily aged in the way of being unquestionably way, way past peak, phonebook glue and phonebooks, odly herbal // don’t think that there is carb. in here, touch watery // this is bad, the 1/100 on style is not a joke // this is simply bad moonshine as simple as that Friday, August 24, 2012
johndoughty	2.5 Shoes Peploes Tipple Bottle. Bronze with a small head, The acidity from this beer was quite upsetting,Hard to see what this beer offers. Not a lot I thnk! Saturday, November 12, 2011
madmitch76	3.5 Shoes Farriers Beer 29th December 2007 Strong nose of Port. The beer is mostly flat/ Massive brandy and wine tones. Subtle fruit underneath. Dry warming finish. Not subtle but a highly unusual English beer. Sunday, January 9, 2011
johndoughty	3.5 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle. Golden and clear with a small head.Sweet and very powerful. Packs a lot of punch but nothing else. File under tried but never again. Wednesday, December 29, 2010
DruncanVeasey	3.4 Shoes Farriers Ale Cask gravity, Beer on The Wye 6, Hereford (’Farrier’s Ale, 14.7% ABV’ according to the festival programme, but actually weighing in at an eye-watering 15.5% ABV according to the cask). Dusty golden amber, no head, massive legs. Sherry in a cave aroma. Nil malt or hop presence. Huge alcohol warm, moulding grapeskin and satsumas, dabs of cream. Chews with mildewed, dusty, sherried old fruit long after it’s gone. Slight numbing of the hands, cheap blended whiskey burn....and yet almost leaves you almost wanting a pair. Almost. Mad, utterly mad, and even after 3.5K, I’m pretty stunned by this one. Thursday, July 15, 2010
JorisPPattyn	3.4 Shoes Farriers Ale Light haze in light-amber beer, small transparent head. Acetone, acetic, pineapple and other esters. Very old sherry from the wood, and lightly acidic; bit of solvent, and certainly fusels. Not very well-bodied, acids & esters thinning the MF. Where really is the difference with the stronger Beer? "Interesting" is really the word, I liked the stronger Beer better. Thursday, November 26, 2009
Papsoe	3.2 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours a hazy pale amber with a tiny off-white head. Extremely alcoholic nose - almost honeyish and Mead-like. Medium body, close to flat, honey and flower notes. Very alcoholic finish with some bitterness. 270609 Monday, September 14, 2009
DJMonarch	3.2 Shoes Farriers Ale From the Bottle at Tom’s Ultimate Glasgow Tasting, Blackfriars 01/12/2007 Very strong sherry aroma. Amber golden coloured with lots of alcohol present. A bitter and warming finish. Thursday, July 16, 2009
oh6gdx	4 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is bigtime honey and alcohol along with some mildly herbally notes. Flavour is alcohol, sweet malts, nectar and tropical fruits. Mildly glueish as it gets warmer. Otherwise a really nice barley wine. I’m glad I got to finish this bottle off at the Papsoe tasting .) Wednesday, July 8, 2009
yespr	1.5 Shoes Farriers Beer 33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy to hazy orange with a fully gone head. Acetone, glue and detergent aroma. Sweet, acidic and herbal flavoured. Light acidic and acetone on the back of the nose. Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Pinball	3.1 Shoes Farriers Beer aroma is strong, honey, like a mead, spicy and faint herbal, flavor is citrus, honey, a bit old beer, resembles mead more than barley wine. a bit mouldy pal overall Tuesday, June 30, 2009
joergen	1.7 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle. Hazy golden coloured with a small white head. Fruity aroma dominatyed by alcohol. Sweet flavour of fruits and alcohol with notes of berries and honey. Burning alcoholic finish. Sunday, June 28, 2009
KimJohansen	2.6 Shoes Farriers Beer Cloudy golden with a tiny off white short lasting head. Sweet aroma with caramal, alcohol and honey notes. Flavour wass weet with burning alcohol, honney and flowers. Saturday, June 27, 2009
Ungstrup	3.3 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of sweet malt, honey, flowers, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and honey, as well as lighter notes of flowers. The alcohol burns lightly in the top of the throat. Thanks Papsoe for sharing. Saturday, June 27, 2009
fonefan	2.5 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle 330ml. [ Vintage ]. Unclear mudy amber color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fresh tart fruit, plum, alcohol. Flavor is alcoholc - alcohol with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is flat to soft. Can not drink a glass of this .. [20090226] Thursday, May 28, 2009
oberabcbbsok	4.4 Shoes Farriers Beer Tasted 3 different versions simultanious. First the 14% Purple label: No head smell of alcohol. Fruity, Alcohol and bitter aftertaste. Second 15.2 % Green Label: No head same smell. More Alcohollic as the 14% and bitterness was even more. Third 15.5 % Black Label A fine head and oh so complex. Way softer as the 2 previous beers. Very fruity and a good bitter Aftertaste, the alcohol is notable but becouse of the complexity very drinkable. It tast more like sherry. Tasted 16,5 cl each. After tasting the beers in a row, we did the last tasting next to each other. Amazing really. It took us 4 hours to drink only about 50cl of this awsome beer. Thursday, September 4, 2008
cgarvieuk	2.1 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottles at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting ... YEUCH, thats about it. we had 14% and 15.5% bottles Very rought no balance. I could maybe have finnished the 14% but the 15.5 was like raw alcohol. Sunday, July 13, 2008
JorisPPattyn	4.1 Shoes Farriers Beer Head, colourless, for 3 secs flat over cognac-coloured beer; Casked Amontillado sherry, some toffee maybe, on wine - absolutely UN-BE-LIE-VA-BLE! Imagine watered-down sherry, with some waterplant like duckweed. Very slick, oily, but not heavy. Medium bodied, but very difficultly drinkable. Unbelievable beer, more like a sherry from the cask. Reinvestigates the limits of the word "beer". I challenge anyone sampling this stuff blind, and still call it beer... Big thanks to Dirk and Carlo! Thursday, July 10, 2008
Fukito	1.9 Shoes Farriers Ale Bottle, april 08, thanks Gazza! Slghtly hazy, rich mahoganny brown/ orange color wih some bubbling but a very small white rim. Strong toffe aroma with some wood. Shouts booze and some nail polish. Not good. Strange, slightly spicy flavor with an acidic touch, some wook and whisky, a bit of smoke but a great, and I mean great, alocoholic burnt. Very hard. Medium to light palate, the very alcoholic feeling makes it very difficult to drink. Strange, but rather unpleasant strong ale. Friday, April 25, 2008
Fin	2.2 Shoes Peploes Tipple Cask at the Three Horseshoes, brewpub at Norton Cannon, Herefordshire 04-04-08 Poured mid amber into a Double Diamond 1970’s half pint tankard, looked a bit hazy but one wonders whther the age of the drinking vessel may have helped with this effect. A strange aroma of confectionary and soap this beer was quite rough around the edges and rather unrefined, finishes with a fruity tang but not that great. Saturday, April 5, 2008
Fin	2.8 Shoes Norton Ale Cask at the Three Horseshoes, brewpub at Norton Cannon, Herefordshire 04-04-08 This was my second visit here I’d been along one Christmas Eve about 4 years ago, it hasn’t really changed at all with many of the characters sat at the bar then still here again today. This beer poured mid amber with a small white head, some soft bitterness but I felt it to be too thin. Lacking in any hoppy bite and served like Loz’s and Grahams’s (Loz’s dad) in a 1970’s classic half pint tankard, mine was plain but Loz’s was M&B Brew X1, Graham’s was Double Diamond. Serving this beer in these tankards seemed right, it sort of had that 1970’s style of beer taste, it’s ok but whilst other beers have moved on this like the pub was quaint and seemed to hark back to yesteryear. My sample was 3.9% Saturday, April 5, 2008
Panzerfaust	1.4 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle, 14% ABV Pours a clear, flat amber color with no head. Aroma is VERY alcoholic, toxic, with notes of nail polisher, alcohol, brandy and cheap whiskey. It’s so strong and alcoholic it’s scary. Ultra alcoholic, chemical flavor. Please bring some ice or anything to combine and make a drink. Parafine, rum and cheap whiskey. It’s scary and almost undrinkable for a beer. Seems distilled. Intensely phenolic, harsh, alcoholic as hell. Cognac? I would drink a fine scotch unblended whisky instead any time. No carbonation. Harsh, alcoholic finish. Tood bad. My poor liver had to go through this crap Thanks to <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/View-User-11196.htm>Gazza for this bottle Shared with <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/View-User-31163.htm>Lilith and <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/View-User-39680.htm>davidpl Saturday, December 22, 2007
davidpl	1.5 Shoes Farriers Beer Appearance: amber color. Not head. Aroma: alcoholic mainly, unpleasant chemical touches like acetone and gasoline. Some whisky and dried-fruit aromatic notes. Flavor: malty start, definitively unjustified high alcoholic degree that hidden others potential savors. Some dried-fruits note. Whisky and cognac’s reminiscences. Palate: medium body and few carbonated. Disappointment beer. Thanks <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/View-User-11196.htm>Gazza. Beer tasting with <a href=http://ratebeer.com/View-User-30044.htm>Panzerfaust and <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/View-User-31163.htm> Lilith Friday, December 21, 2007
KnutAlbert	1.2 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle. No carbonation, lots of ugly floaties. Murky. Vinous, warming. Not much beyond the alcohol. Not good. Monday, December 17, 2007
SHIG	1.4 Shoes Farriers Ale Bottle at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting : Clear with no head. The aroma is very alcohol. The taste is like fuel in a bottle. I rather drink my wifes nail polish remover! Monday, December 3, 2007
SHIG	1.1 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting : Poured an amber with white bubbly head. Fruity with alcohol. Taste is like turpentine in a bottle! Drain pour all the way. Monday, December 3, 2007
DonMagi	0.5 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle at ultimate glasgow tasting. Rebottled in a stella bottle and i really wish this had just been stella. Completly undrinkable, ethanol pure alcohol burn, cheap rubbish spirit in the worst green king skunked apply sweet beer you’ve ever had. Disgusting and just horrible in every way. Monday, December 3, 2007
DonMagi	0.7 Shoes Farriers Ale Bottle at glasgow ultimate tasting. Clear bottle that apparently would have been from another beer served in the pub, not too reasuring. Aroma is harsh harsh alcohol esters, appley sweetness, rough grainy malts. Taste is pure ethanol burn, sore harsh and undrinkable. Monday, December 3, 2007
cgarvieuk	2.1 Shoes Farriers Ale Bottles at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting ... YEUCH, thats about it. we had 14% and 15.5% bottles Very rought no balance. I could maybe have finnished the 14% but the 15.5 was like raw alcohol. Sunday, December 2, 2007
maxbeer	3.5 Shoes Farriers Beer [Cask at Hereford festival 2006] Quite strong but well attenuated, not cloying; obviously aroma has alcohol, but is also quite fruity; winey; moderate bitterness. Different from most barleywines, original and overall enjoyable. Thursday, October 11, 2007
maeib	2.7 Shoes Lins Lager Cask conditioned - handpump - Malt Shovel Northampton. A hazy straw coloured beer with some white head and lacing. The aroma is thin and a little yeasty. The taste has sour overtones and yeasty home brew notes. Acceptable. Monday, May 7, 2007
chriso	3.2 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle at the London Gathering, November 2005. Wasn’t expecting too much from this. Various attempts to brew the strongest beer in Britain have often been more gimmicky than serious intent. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Amber colour. Herbal, grassy aroma. Fairly full bodied with raisiny fruit and woody vanilla. Of course the alcohol is apparent, but its warming rather than burning. For once, Silk Tork seems to approve of my "aged" beer. Wednesday, March 1, 2006
DJMonarch	3 Shoes Norton Ale Cask Handpump at the Beer House, Manchester 19/06/2001 Mid brown coloured with a fruity aroma. Slightly dry finish. Thursday, February 23, 2006
DJMonarch	3 Shoes Cannon Bitter Cask Handpump at the Beer House, Manchester 19/06/2001 Mid brown coloured and bitter on the palate. Malt in the finish. Thursday, February 23, 2006
Fin	2.9 Shoes Farriers Beer Merton Beer Festival Sat 18th Feb. Had this in bottle at 15.2% purchased on Xmas Eve at the Shoe brewery pub in Norton Cannon, Herefordshire and a more recently brewed batch in cask at 14% at the above Festival whioch is the one I am rating. I prefered the cask version as even the slight reduction in strength definately improved it, plenty of sherry notes, sweet and a bit too sticky for me, but interesting and not too bad. Definately better than the 15.2% bottle which others have correctly suggested is far to harsh. Thursday, February 23, 2006
duff	1.8 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle. Way too much alcohol, really raw alcohol burning sensation from start to finish. It does soften a touch to reveal some raisin, wood, and vanilla notes. But theres just too much alcohol in here, very unbalanced. Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Mungo	1.9 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle @ London Gatherying, Nov 05. Liquorice and massive alcohol aromas with spirits and spice. The excess alcohol which at this strength in another drink would seem normal but in this one takes on unpleasant aspects. Wednesday, November 16, 2005
maeib	3.5 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottled at the Chris_O Beer, Cheese and Curry powwow. A light brown coloured beer with a massively alcoholic nose. Rum, brandy and sherry notes all fighting for domination. The taste is thick and gloopy; again with tons of alcohol. Sweet and rummy and very sippably nice. Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Joeh	2.2 Shoes Farriers Beer A strange beer. Aroma is exceptionally disgusting, nail polish remover and various other smells (solvents) that I never expected in a beer. To taste this is quite sweet but overbearingly alcoholic. I don’t really mind the taste of high gravity beers so I didn’t find this all that offensive, but I didn’t like it at all either. Poor. Monday, November 14, 2005
harrisoni	1.7 Shoes Farriers Beer Bottle at London gathering Nov 05. Amber colour with no head. Strong alcohol sweet aroma. Bit too strong for me and rather nasty Monday, November 14, 2005
chriso	3.6 Shoes Norton Ale This was billed as a green hop beer, so I don’t know whether it differs markedly from the normal version. Mid copper colour. Restrained hoppy aroma. The flavour is very dry, very hoppy and very bitter. In my view, very nice, if a little austere for some tastes. Cask (handpump) at the Three Horseshoes brewpub, Norton Cannon, Herefordshire. Tuesday, November 30, 2004