Good Elff
Hop Back Brewery plc
- From:
- Hop Back Brewery plc
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 3.9%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.41 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 05, 2005
- Added:
- Dec 05, 2005
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.41/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.41/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Tasted this beer as a guest ale at the JDW pub facing the Tower of London. The pub has 24 beer engines(!) on two floors but serves only ONE guest real ale upon my visit... What a pity.
A: dark copper hued, slightly hazy, with well-sustained white beer head leaving creamy and tight lacing. Good sign that it's very fresh.
S: very fresh, sourly-sweet forest berries on top of lightly caramel malts, highlighting a piney+coriander seed+menthol like mixed herb aroma, which is so pronounced that the maltiness upfront is subdued. Quite unusual for a winter bitter and I suspect it's perhaps spiced with coriander seeds.
T&M: lightly sweet maltiness with a tart fruity/berry hint prevails upfront, while an utterly dryish bitter flavour of herbs and exotic coriander-seeds provide a herbal hoppy backbone and keep the mouthfeel floating and lively~~ The beer goes down very easily from the first sip onwards, but later on it goes down a bit TOO easily even like water (not watery) that you'd forget you're drinking a beer. I'm not sure if it's good because I drank it so slowly that in the end the texture failed to keep the overall form and balance in flavour.
D: overall, a very different, winter beer I'm happy to bump into. To be more enjoyable, I think the beer has to make up its mind about its affiliation in between a winter warmer and a wholly spiced bitter.
Dec 05, 2005A: dark copper hued, slightly hazy, with well-sustained white beer head leaving creamy and tight lacing. Good sign that it's very fresh.
S: very fresh, sourly-sweet forest berries on top of lightly caramel malts, highlighting a piney+coriander seed+menthol like mixed herb aroma, which is so pronounced that the maltiness upfront is subdued. Quite unusual for a winter bitter and I suspect it's perhaps spiced with coriander seeds.
T&M: lightly sweet maltiness with a tart fruity/berry hint prevails upfront, while an utterly dryish bitter flavour of herbs and exotic coriander-seeds provide a herbal hoppy backbone and keep the mouthfeel floating and lively~~ The beer goes down very easily from the first sip onwards, but later on it goes down a bit TOO easily even like water (not watery) that you'd forget you're drinking a beer. I'm not sure if it's good because I drank it so slowly that in the end the texture failed to keep the overall form and balance in flavour.
D: overall, a very different, winter beer I'm happy to bump into. To be more enjoyable, I think the beer has to make up its mind about its affiliation in between a winter warmer and a wholly spiced bitter.
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