Old Leg Over
Daleside Brewery

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Daleside Brewery
 
England, United Kingdom
Style:
English Bitter
ABV:
4.1%
Score:
82
Avg:
3.55 | pDev: 11.83%
Reviews:
44
Ratings:
53
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jun 16, 2021
Added:
Sep 23, 2002
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  2
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Rated: 4.16 by Daneve76 from Australia

Jun 16, 2021
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Reviewed by vinicole from England

3.65/5  rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Cask. Amber/copper coloured beer. Cream coloured, thin, bubbly head.
Caramel malt with some nutty aromas.
The taste reflects the smell. Medium bitter.
Cask feel.
Traditional tasting bitter.
Feb 14, 2018
 
Rated: 3.6 by rulisekmartin from Czech Republic

Oct 06, 2015
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Reviewed by Andrewharemza from Australia

3.99/5  rDev +12.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Slight hoppy bitterness with malty nuttiness in aroma. Cloudy reddish brown colour with great head. Similar to aroma with strong bitterness up front and smooth nutty finish.
Jun 28, 2015
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Reviewed by jazzyjeff13 from England

3.45/5  rDev -2.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
A 500ml bottle with a BB of Aug 2015. Purchased a while back from a supermarket. The name lends itself to subtle innuendo, but also references the Yorkshire pastime of fell-running.

A: Poured into a tulip pint glass. A deep, clear reddish-amber hue with plentiful carbonation. Yields a small head of creamy off-white foam that rapidly settles to a patchy surface layer.

S: Aroma of grainy malt with hints of caramel/toffee, mild nuttiness, fruity ale yeast, a touch of hay and faint stewed leaves. Unexciting.

T: Tastes of grainy malt with a subtle bitter finish. Notes of caramel, mild toasted grain, faint nuttiness, fruity ale yeast, grass/hay and a hint of stewed leaves. Slightly sweet, followed by a subdued leafy bitterness upon swallowing.

M: Mouthfeel is smooth and tingly, with pleasant carbonation and good body. Mildly astringent, accompanied by an aftertaste of ale yeast, mild caramel and stewed leaves.

O: OK though not amazing. Looks alrightish - shame about the lack of head. The aroma and flavour are a pretty traditional mix of grainy caramel malt, ale yeast esters and subtle grassy hops. Good body. Errs toward being a bit bland. I'm sure this used to be better, but perhaps it's me. Worth trying but no need to seek it out.
May 08, 2015
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Reviewed by pat61 from Minnesota

4/5  rDev +12.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: Pours a brilliant chestnut with ¼” foam collar that slowly dissipates but leaves good lacing.
S: Bread, nuts and a trace of skunk but I can drive it off by swirling the glass.
T: Toffee, slight sweetness, lingering toffee and graham cracker, taste a little hop at the end.
M: medium body, low carbonation
O: A decent session beer.
Mar 31, 2015
 
Rated: 3.47 by Rwalford74 from Australia

Jan 17, 2015
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Reviewed by SmashPants from Australia

3.54/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Format: a large and solid brown 500mL bottle with a decent English label.

Appearance: pours out a mid-brown with sparse but chunky carbonation - looks cola-like. A half-finger of off-white head drops to a thin cap with okay lacing.

Aroma: there are light toffee malts here with a definite nutty quality behind also. A bit demure.

Taste: follows the nose pretty closely, with the toffee taking point and the nut characteristic in the background. Quite a smooth flavour.

Aftertaste: a slight amount of unusually bittering biscuit malts join the toffee and nuts on the finish.

Mouth feel: this beer is moderate-to-fuller in feel with a lighter to moderate carbonation. Quite smooth.

Overall: quite a nice English Yorkshire ale. I am impressed by the roundness of flavours for something that is only 4.1%. Decent for AU$8 for a 500mL bottle - I'll have one every now and then.
Dec 18, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by wrightst from Maryland

Jun 23, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by endless1408 from England

May 31, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by Latarnik from New Jersey

May 26, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by harpus from Alabama

Jul 02, 2013
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Reviewed by soju6 from Missouri

3.24/5  rDev -8.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
A: Pours a hazy dark amber color with a small head that fades to traces of lacing.

S: Aroma of roasted malt, caramel and nutty with some fruit and bit of spice in the background.

T: Taste of roasted malt, some caramel sweetness, bit of nuts and fruit. Mild bitterness and a quite dry finish.

F: Moderate body and quite smooth.

O: Decent drinker, fairly average for the style.
May 31, 2013
 
Rated: 3 by pin from Australia

May 22, 2013
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Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England

3.31/5  rDev -6.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Very surprised to see this on cask at the Telford Town centre Wetherspoons (20 Feb 2013) and felt compelled to have a pint.

Looked like a lot of the old style 'English Bitters': meaning a fairly dull mid-brown colour with an off-white head sat moodily on top.

Typical UK beery esters reached my nose: nothing too strong or powerful, just an understated blend of malts and hops, neither taking complete control. The malts however do hint at a sweetness to come and sure enough the brew has a malty molasses feel and flavour in the mouth.

OK more than brilliant: pleased I had it though, don't see enough Daleside beers in Shropshire.
Mar 04, 2013
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Reviewed by Beergeeknut from New York

3.33/5  rDev -6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance: Dark amber and an off white head an inch high.

Aroma: Toffee, bready malts, lightly roasted floral hops, caramel malts.

Taste: Very bready in the front with a smooth mouthfeel. Toffee notes, hops are dry and roasted along with the caramel malts.

Notes: This one is all malt and very drinkable. Cheers.
Dec 24, 2012
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Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
pours a brown ale looking pint both in colour and head i.e. barely there whitish wisps.

Aromas of acetate and brown sugar.

taste starts with a complex mix of malts seems to be about to go sweet then sweeps into hoppy bitterness

good solid mouthfeel and nice low carbonation

a decent solid Yorkshire brew.
Feb 11, 2012
 
Rated: 4 by fizzyted from Canada (ON)

Dec 16, 2011
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Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia

3.76/5  rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
500ml bottle purchased from Sackville Cellars in Rozelle, a nice little bottlo that often has some interesting beers.

Pours a very deep reddish copper colour, with an initially frothy and large-bubbled head of beige, that settles down to a pleasant, fine English film. Body is light, and there's a surprisingly vivacious amount of carbonation, but otherwise it looks good.

Nose is a bit mean on aroma, giving up little besides a touch of earthy hops and a very minimal crushed petal freshness. It's all extremely restrained to the point of boredom. Had better.

Taste is a lot better, incredibly smooth and mild, with a good nutty grain character towards the centre and a touch of earthy, slightly twanging metallic hops to finish up. Very smooth and clean, but with that subtle, comforting body that English ales do so well.

Very drinkable brew, if very much in the milder-is-better, balance-is-everything mould of the old school of English brewing.
Aug 25, 2011
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Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts

3.7/5  rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
After Pretty Things Hedgerow was not a huge hit for me, and talking to Dan Paquette about it i realized I had to start getting into more English Bitters and really learn the style, and maybe even start to like them. So here's another to try.

Pours a semi frothy smaller 1/4 finger head that just sticks around like it was meant to be there, over a semi clear but slight yeast chunked rosy reddish slight orange-brown colored beer.

Nose actually brings more sweetness and malts than hops, some brown sugar, molasses, light syrupy, plenty of brownish sweeter malts, crystal malts, soft slightly aged malt aromas, slight candy, and I half expect a slight boozy aroma but it never comes. As my nostrils quickly get used to the malts and sweetness, some light bitterness comes through, a very slight earthy and herbal hop not so much the herbal that I'm not a big fan of though, just vegetative oily herbal.

Taste follows a similar pattern, starting first with a sweet malty kick, a bit of brown sugar and hint of molasses, a bit of a candy flavor, caramelized malts, a nutty like malt flavor, a bit of fruit comes through with it thanks to the yeast I think, slight fig like fruit, and a soft aged malt with plenty of medium brown malts, again I half expect some booze to kick in but never comes (the difference between a beer from U.K. and U.S. I think). Then some bittering hops, not much, it gets slightly bitter but not what I was expecting. The hops bring a very light oily vegetative herbal taste. Then I get a bit of oxidation coming through, possibly in the transportation and who knows how long it was sitting on the shelf. Finishes with a slight sweetness that seems to dry like a Belgian candi sugar finish would do, a bit more soft malt tastes, molasses, and very slight bitterness with herbal hops lingering.

Mouth is a bit richer and heavier bodied but not much, and decent carbonation.

Overall not bad, not what I was expecting. Nice malt flavors, the hops and bitterness were nowhere on target if it were a bitter. The slight oxidation takes away from it a bit as well. It was more like a mild than anything, perhaps being mislabeled on BA as I don't see it mentioning being a bitter on the bottle. It calls itself more of an ale of old the style that would come from a cask, and so I will judge this beer more like that than what I was expecting for a bitter.
Jun 08, 2011
Old Leg Over from Daleside Brewery
Beer rating: 82 out of 100 with 53 ratings