Marks&Spencer Fenland Sovereign Golden Ale
Elgood and Sons Ltd
- From:
- Elgood and Sons Ltd
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.24 | pDev: 11.11%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 25, 2015
- Added:
- Dec 04, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England
3.05/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
3.05/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Bottled and sadly not bottle conditioned
Pours a golden clear body with huge foaming white head that quickly disappears
Slight gooseberry aroma
Metallic flavour
Thin body
Feb 22, 2014Pours a golden clear body with huge foaming white head that quickly disappears
Slight gooseberry aroma
Metallic flavour
Thin body
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
2.61/5 rDev -19.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.61/5 rDev -19.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Purchased from the Marks & Spencer supermarket, coming in a 568ml brown bottle; BB 07/2014, served mildly chilled in a straight imperial pint glass. Notes: This is one of the “Single Variety Hop” beer series that M&S has contracted a few British breweries to produce for them. The back label says this Golden Ale uses a pale ale malt from “Westminster barley” (surely, not “Warminster” malts?) and “Sovereign hops which are a hedgerow variety”, first released “to mark the Queen’s Golden Jubilee”.
A: pours a bright golden colour with great clarity and mild carbonation, topped with a thin but well-lasting layer of off-white foamy head.
S: quite sweet on the balance, showing notes of honey, caramel-glazed melon and some floral hints (of hops?). Given a good swirl, a strange touch of rust comes to the front, along with sweet crème brûlée & butterscotch-like undertones. Where are the hops that are supposed to be showcased in this single hop variety beer?
T: like the aroma, the palate is full of sour-sweet prune-ish fruit candy and burned-toffee-ish malty & sweet buttery flavours…! Really sickly sweet to my taste, finishing without much hop flavour and bitterness apart from a mild bitter-sweetness as in the undertones of Taiwanese liquorice-flavoured brown prunes, while a light tinge of alc. is surprisingly felt in the form of a little warmth down the throat at the end of each sip.
M&O: effervescent but not OTT, medium-bodied, intensely sweet on the balance and strangely flavoured; really unbalanced and out of focus all in all. I don’t know what went wrong during the brewing process, or maybe this is how Elgood’s intends to glorify both “Westminster barley” and “Sovereign hops” in the form of a beer… What a mess to me, being a single variety hop beer, I must say!
Dec 09, 2013A: pours a bright golden colour with great clarity and mild carbonation, topped with a thin but well-lasting layer of off-white foamy head.
S: quite sweet on the balance, showing notes of honey, caramel-glazed melon and some floral hints (of hops?). Given a good swirl, a strange touch of rust comes to the front, along with sweet crème brûlée & butterscotch-like undertones. Where are the hops that are supposed to be showcased in this single hop variety beer?
T: like the aroma, the palate is full of sour-sweet prune-ish fruit candy and burned-toffee-ish malty & sweet buttery flavours…! Really sickly sweet to my taste, finishing without much hop flavour and bitterness apart from a mild bitter-sweetness as in the undertones of Taiwanese liquorice-flavoured brown prunes, while a light tinge of alc. is surprisingly felt in the form of a little warmth down the throat at the end of each sip.
M&O: effervescent but not OTT, medium-bodied, intensely sweet on the balance and strangely flavoured; really unbalanced and out of focus all in all. I don’t know what went wrong during the brewing process, or maybe this is how Elgood’s intends to glorify both “Westminster barley” and “Sovereign hops” in the form of a beer… What a mess to me, being a single variety hop beer, I must say!
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