Highgate Old Ale (Bottle) Davenports Beer (prev Blue Bear & Highgate) Smethwick, West Midlands
Beer style: Old Ale Ref: ratebeer.com Jun2024
Common descriptors are Pasteurised bottle. A firm favourite with the customers who have fond memories of the days when this beer would be “mulled” using a red hot poker, to enhance it’s aroma. It is brewed using pale, crystal and black malts with a little high maltose syrup. The beer’s natural sweetness is balanced using Progress, Fuggle and Golding hops.
Tasting notes: A warming aroma with hints of chocolate, fruit and malt gives way to a complex full palate of chocolate, fruit and liquorice. The finish is long and the overall impression is of a superbly crafted, smooth and well-balanced beer, which many will testify is deceptively strong.
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