Recent Tasting Notes

Abbaye du Cateau La Vivat Biere de Garde (14/20)
Cloudy dull orange; fizzy head with good retention. Spicy, almost peppery nose, citrus tang, good complexity. Very similar to taste; great pepper character, and the palate is quite elegant and fizzy.

Red Hill Weizenbock (15/20)
Very pretty and seductive beer. Dark caramel with a very thin, creamy mocha coloured head. Unremarkable. Nose is special; raisened fruity cake aromas with a strong underlay of sweet toffee and estery fruitiness. Palate is well build, medium strength fizz, more fruit cake with a liquored streak and a bitter / dark chocolate edge. Intensity does trail off a touch through the palate.

Thorogoods Billy B's Dark Malted Apple Beer (16/20)
Chocolate brown with a very thin coffee coloured head. Lively nose; dirty winey notes, fruity apple, faint musty wood, all backed up with a salty underlay. Mega complex (as per usual for the house). Flavours show good intensity with minerals, apples, acid aplenty, and lots of fizz. Although, and perhaps at odds with the acid observation, the palate is very broad. Finishes with more salty notes. (late 2006 bottling).