Eldridge Pope Thomas Hardy's Ale (up to 1999) Eldridge Pope Dorchester, Dorset
Beer style: Barley Wine / Wheat Wine / Rye Wine Ref: ratebeer.com Jun2024
Common descriptors are Creamy butterscotch notes flood the taste buds, laced with subtle complex fruit...and a subtle suggestion of vintage port. Elegant and seamless, this beer was a waltz on the palate.
In ’The Trumpet Major’ Hardy wrote of Dorchester strong beer "It was of the most beautiful colour that the eye of an artist in beer could desire; full in body, yet brisk as a volcano; piquant, yet without a twang; luminous as an autumn sunset;..." |