Recent Tasting Notes
Früh Kölsch (11/20)
Unremarkable light gold in colour and zero head. Very clean looking. Nose is a mix of slight mushy, stale malts and talcum powder / mineral-like notes. Quite sharp early in the mouth with cutting, more powdery notes and a slightly burning acid character (wine-like in this respect). The stodgy malts evident on the nose kick in late. Ok beer I guess.
Thwaites Dark Mild (11/20)
Served via can. Pours nicely with a very well formed 1 inch thick creamy coffee coloured head. Very dark brown in colour. Tough to pick much on the nose. Soft milky chocolates to taste, albeit mild, and just the faintest rusty note. Quite soft carbonation but I’m not sure if this is the effect of the can? The best thing about this beer, for mine, is that it is quite an acceptable flavoursome beer that weighs in at only 3.2%. This is a good result for the drink and drive brigade.
3 Ravens White (15/20)
Appearance as per other tasting notes on www.ratebeer.com; hazy lemon / orange with poor head retention. Striking aromas of big spices - cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg - these characters are very obvious. Perhaps a fraction contrieved. A touch more pedestrian to taste with the spice making way for lemon and faint honey notes before a whack of pepper and 5 spice kicks in on the finish. Quite unique flavours but you do see traces of this in the blond. Love the 640ml bottles - you’d look very cool sipping on one of these at St Jerome and its ilk (if of course they had the vision to stock it).
Unremarkable light gold in colour and zero head. Very clean looking. Nose is a mix of slight mushy, stale malts and talcum powder / mineral-like notes. Quite sharp early in the mouth with cutting, more powdery notes and a slightly burning acid character (wine-like in this respect). The stodgy malts evident on the nose kick in late. Ok beer I guess.
Thwaites Dark Mild (11/20)
Served via can. Pours nicely with a very well formed 1 inch thick creamy coffee coloured head. Very dark brown in colour. Tough to pick much on the nose. Soft milky chocolates to taste, albeit mild, and just the faintest rusty note. Quite soft carbonation but I’m not sure if this is the effect of the can? The best thing about this beer, for mine, is that it is quite an acceptable flavoursome beer that weighs in at only 3.2%. This is a good result for the drink and drive brigade.
3 Ravens White (15/20)
Appearance as per other tasting notes on www.ratebeer.com; hazy lemon / orange with poor head retention. Striking aromas of big spices - cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg - these characters are very obvious. Perhaps a fraction contrieved. A touch more pedestrian to taste with the spice making way for lemon and faint honey notes before a whack of pepper and 5 spice kicks in on the finish. Quite unique flavours but you do see traces of this in the blond. Love the 640ml bottles - you’d look very cool sipping on one of these at St Jerome and its ilk (if of course they had the vision to stock it).
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