Dr Bob's Magic Potion
The Caledonian Brewing Company
- From:
- The Caledonian Brewing Company
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Dark Mild Ale
- ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.05 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 29, 2006
- Added:
- May 29, 2006
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
3.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Tasted by half-pint at my local JDW pub, the Half Moon, in East End London during 'Spoon's beer festival 11-21/05/06. It's part of the festival beer range.
A: dark brown to mahogany hue, a bubbly and fluffy off-white beer head soon dissipates; low carbonation.
S: refreshingly fruity and sweet herbal jelly aroma (as in Chinese herb-jelly made of Mesona Chinensis Benth), with an aromatic, caramely malty overtone laced with a deeper, inky touch of dark malts; quite typical of milds, but overall quite refreshing and light.
T: "over-chilled" is the impression from the first sip... but my taste-buds still (painstakingly) manage to identify flavours of mildly roast malts and a brown-sugary flavour; silently proceeding to a clean, malty but extremely light aftertaste, where a restrained input of herbal, bitter-sweet edge sustains with a dryish impact felt down the palate.
M&D: very light in body and rather refreshing. All in all, this is a decent, traditional dark mild, but nothing more special worth mentioning than that. Could've been better if served slightly warmer than "chilled", IMO. (P.S. Some JDW pubs just go the other extreme from those notorious London pubs that serve literally warm pints--so they chill their casks?!)
May 29, 2006A: dark brown to mahogany hue, a bubbly and fluffy off-white beer head soon dissipates; low carbonation.
S: refreshingly fruity and sweet herbal jelly aroma (as in Chinese herb-jelly made of Mesona Chinensis Benth), with an aromatic, caramely malty overtone laced with a deeper, inky touch of dark malts; quite typical of milds, but overall quite refreshing and light.
T: "over-chilled" is the impression from the first sip... but my taste-buds still (painstakingly) manage to identify flavours of mildly roast malts and a brown-sugary flavour; silently proceeding to a clean, malty but extremely light aftertaste, where a restrained input of herbal, bitter-sweet edge sustains with a dryish impact felt down the palate.
M&D: very light in body and rather refreshing. All in all, this is a decent, traditional dark mild, but nothing more special worth mentioning than that. Could've been better if served slightly warmer than "chilled", IMO. (P.S. Some JDW pubs just go the other extreme from those notorious London pubs that serve literally warm pints--so they chill their casks?!)
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