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Beer: Heritage
Brewery: Three Castles
Type: Bitter
ABV: 4.2%
Quite sweet grassy aroma. Appearance best attribute with a nice brown red colour, nice carbonation, and good creamy head and lacing. The taste is a bit of a strange one as it's bitter tasting but with a strange fruity honey sweetness to it. Can't make it out really, maybe it's the bottle or sediment coming through. Palate is ok. Overall a not pleasant disappointing classic bitter.
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Dark hazy brown colour with low carbonatio and no real head. Aroma is fairly malty and fruity. Taste is quite a full malty sweet taste with hints of raison or plum. It's quite an enjoyable light beer despite it's quite warm spice tinge.
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Beer: Wainwright
Brewery: Thwaites
Type: Golden/Blonde Ale
ABV: 4.1%
Light slightly sweet aroma. Great appearance with a light clear yellow colour, creamy head, and great lacing. Taste is slightly citrus but quite fruity with a melon or honey tinge to it. Palate is quite thin with a bit of bitterness in finish. Quite a drinkable beer but the score is perhaps flattering, it's just enjoyable not special.
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Beer: Pothole Filler
Brewery: Howe Sound (possibly the most renowned BC craft brewery)
Type: Imperial Stout
ABV: 9%
This beer is an intensely flavourful imperial stout, and in keeping with Howe Sounds reputation in BC it delivers. It has a fruity and malty aroma with hints of coffee, molasses and spices. Its thick, quite strong and so black that holding it up to a lightbulb yields no light (except an amber millimeter around the edges). It tastes strikingly sweet and bitter simultaneously with hints of the aforemetioned flavours as well as roasted chestnuts and savoury meat. It is a very smooth beer with a creamy mouthfeel that is slightly tingly due to the carbonation and alcohol (which will diminish a while after it is poured). Probably the best temperature to serve this beer is somewhere between fridge and room temperature although you may find it becomes more and more enjoyable as it warms.
One of the most impressive things to me about this beer is the lingering aftertaste that is almost as powerful as the beer itself. You can still taste the roasted malt and molasses contrasting the hoppy bitterness up to a minute after drinking it. The only drawback is a potentially overpowering alcohol content but in my opinion this is balanced quite well be the intense flavour.
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Beer: Goliath
Brewery: Wychwood
Alc: 4.2%
Quite a hoppy beer with various hops in the blend. Hop and slightly flowery aroma. Light ruby amber colour with minimal carbonation. No head or lacing. Taste is quite refreshing crisp flavor with hops the main point. The palate is light with a thin and short finish. Slight bitterness. Overall nothing special but quite thirst quenching as the beer says.
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Beer: Tally Ho 2009
Brewery: Adnams
Alc: 7.2%
A pretty good barley wine style beer. Would like to a taste an older vintage one and I should have laid this one down perhaps. Sweet spicy aroma with hints of raisin and biscuit. The colour is dark ruby red with a head that goes fairly quickly an medium lacing. The palate is fairly medium with a grape mouthfeel. Finish is quite short and simple. Overall taste is an enjoyable sweet slightly malty and spicy, and the kick of the 7.2% definitely filters through.
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Beer: Carnegie Stark Porter
Brewery: Carlsberg Sverige
Alc: 5.5%
Nice floral sweet aroma with a faint smoke. Appearance rich black no head or other interest. Sweet taste of treacle and slight spice of some clove or vanilla. Hint of coffee or smokeyness. Palate is quite light and smooth for a 5.5%. Quite a nice balanced porter stout overall. One of the nicer ones I've had in a while.
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Beer: 5 A.M Saint
Brewery: Brewdog (Scotland)
Alc: 5%
A really good clean tasting crisp slightly hoppy amber ale. Aroma oozes sharp fruit, bit of grapefruit and orange. The appearance is pretty much perfect consisting of bright orange amber colour, carbonation and a clear visibility. Yellow off white foamy head with good lacing. The palate is smooth on the tongue and quite light. The taste is crisp citrus fruit with a bitter taste. It has a slight sweet hint too.
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Beer: Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale
Brewery: The Old Brewery, Tadcaster
Alc: 5%
As the name suggests, a dry, nutty ale with brown smoky walnut and leather flavours, and quite a sweet finish. It's got a thin, bubbly head yet lively carbonation and a mahogany colour with a light yet almost savoury mouthfeel. I'd reccomend this, I'm enjoying it with several cheeses and apples and they all really complement each other. 500ml bottle.
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Beer: Two Season Treat
Brewery: Fallen Angel (Norfolk)
Alc: 3.8%
Intriguing winter style beer with a fair bit of spice and earth taste and in the aroma too. It has a dark fruit touch too which is perhaps from just one of the spices, or from a sharp fruit such as blackberry or maybe plum. It's colour is dark brown red with no real head to speak of. It's quite light and easy going, fairly smooth in the mouth. Not a bad beer really but nothing amazing.
