Shepherd Neame Late Red

Another free beer from my mum I believe

Appearance:

Auburn and copper  with lasting head

Aroma:

Hops come across first with some fruit and berries

Taste:

Fruity carbonation with a hoppy bitterness coming later, touch of spiciness. The finish is crisp and not long.

Overall:

Claims to be an autumn beer not one in my eyes, I want dark malts and some sweatness.

5.0/10

Archers Quartz Blonde

Another free beer can't remember who from..............

Appearance:

Light gold with not much head

Aroma:

Citrus with hop overtones and slight grass like smell.

Taste:

Light carbonation comes first the light maltiness underpinned with some hops but less than expected. Finish is very short, slightly drying and bitter.

Overall:

Very one dimensional, not one to remember.

5.5 /10

Slater's Top Totty

Another free beer from my mate Rob.

Appearance:

Light bright gold with a head that just stays a little.

Aroma:

Hops with a hint of citrus and large of amount of grassy/hay note.

Taste:

Tangy citrus that fades to bitter hops. The finish is bitter and dry

Overall:

Nice enough but not the right year to be drinking this type of beer so suffers for the season, nice but not special.

7.0 /10

Hobsons Kiss me now, a wintery stout

A seasonal beer from my local brewery

Appearance:

Dark almost black with lasting cream head

Aroma:

Dark grain with chocolate and a hint of coffee malt and just a bit of hops.

Taste:

Bitter burnt grain which fades to plain chocolate at than start which is smoothed out by a by floral hops with a tartness pleasant carbonation the finish is long balanced between the bitter burnt grain and floral hops.

Overall:

Nice winter beer I would like a bit more omph in terms of alcohol to make it a real winter warmer. But a nice beer which will make it home with me.

7.5 /10

Ridgeway Brewing Santa's Butt

Another free beer from my friends the Wards, trying to get me a stupid name beer for Christmas. I gave them a beer called Painful Death

Appearance:

Dark ruby with no head with constant bubble almost looks like a cola

Aroma:

Dark fruit with roasted grain which fade to just a grain smell

Taste:

Starts watery but the a coffee taste with roasted grain and a hint of tart blackcurrants comes across followed by a pleasant warming chunk of alcohol even though it is only 6%. The finish is bitter roasted grain and not so long.

Overall:

Nice enough but no real depth of flavour I would drink it again but would not go out of my way to find it.

6.5 /10

Marston Double Drop

Another free beer from my mate Rob

Appearance:

Slight pale cloudy gold with slight head

Aroma:

Odd waxy smell with hint of malt and hops

Taste:

Tart apples that fades to bitter hops. The finish is very short slightly antiseptic

Overall:

Not a beer I would drink again pedigree is better

6.0 /10

Mayfields Brewery Ducking Stool

Today's beer is a Herefordshire ale and another one from my mate Rob

Appearance:

Cloudy gold with nice white lasting head

Aroma:

Light citrus with a touch of hops

Taste:

Citrus notes that fade living a general tartness balanced by malt. The finish is dominated by tart maltness living the mouth dry.

Overall:

Ok but not special I would prefer the citrus to last not a winter beer would be nice in the summer and would probably get better marks!

6.5 /10

St Peter's Organic Ale

A  another beer, an Organic ale

Appearance:

Pale bronze with no really head

Aroma:

Peppery hops with the some malt in the background

Taste:

Starts of  slightly bitter and slightly peppery and then the malt kicks in to balance everything, followed by a tartness. The finish is not so long and is bitterness of the hops being in the background and fades to a tartness.

Overall:

Again with the other St Peter's lacks a little in depth of flavour for me, but perfectly quaffable, would have like a longer finish and a bit more body of flavour.

6.5 /10

Wadworth Swordfish

Not in the book but available for free, my favourite type of beer, from my best mate Rob. Beer with rum named after a plane that helped sink the Bismarck

Appearance:

 

Mid chestnut with slightly of white head

Aroma:

Biscuit malt with floral hops coming through late and a touch of sweatness

Taste:

Slightly over carbonated malt with a small hint of rum then floral hops which fades to bitter hops. The finish is slightly bitter with a bit of malt which soon fades.

 

 

Overall:

Can't really taste much rum in it I would not know that it had any. in the hint probably of rum in the taste is probably from reading the label

7.0/10

Ridgeway Bad King John

Not in the book but available for free, my favourite type of beer

Appearance:

 

Very dark reddy brown with no head to speak of

Aroma:

Vinous fruit tempered by roasted malt and fig sweetness at the very end.

Taste:

Dark Vinous fruits with vinous fruits at first followed by a bit more fig fruit a burnt grain taste comes across followed by a surprisingly warming alcohol (it is 6%) rounded out by very bitter hops. The finish is very bitter with a hint of fig like fruitiness.

 

 

Overall:

strangely lots going on in the taste but still a little watery no real depth of flavour, a nearly beer

6.5/10

TooL Fuck Art this is Advertising

Not in the book but hey I have not done a blog update for some months

Appearance:

 

Cloudy chestnut with a small off white head that kinda stays in the glass

Aroma:

Roasted malt with chocolate and a fig sweetness with a background of flowery hopiness

Taste:

Vinous fruits with a large mount of sweetness and carbonation, hint of flowery hops in the background and more sweatness. The finish is sweetness with some chocolate, coca powder but sweatness with a hint of coffee. 

 

 

Overall:

 

Big mouth strikes again, this beer is so sweet, sweater than and oud bruin or a melk stout. I have another bottle but I will give it away!! 

5.0/10