Appearance:
Chestnut brown with a reasonable white head that stays
Aroma:
Raisins and dried currents with a biscuit like malt in the background a faint touch of hops
Taste:
The dried fruit comes to the fore at first with a touch of a tang taste and then the biscuity malt come through just when you think that this beer is too sweet. The long finish is almost all hops starting spicy and then becoming earthy like a rugby pitch after a game on a wet march day and this is balanced by the background biscuity malt. Oddly enough I found at the end I was left with a taste of cucumber in my mouth.
Overall:
A really good strong ale the bottle claims citrus notes, but I must have missed them although I suppose that what the tang was. A beer I would love to drink on draft in a nice country pub. One to look out for next time I am in Blighty
8.5/10
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