King's Old Ale
W. J. King & Co. Brewers

Cask dispense into a UK half pint glass at the Half Moon, Windlesham.

Pours a dark mahogany brown with a thin beige / off-white head.

Chocolate, roasted malts and dried fruit aroma.

Well balanced flavours in the taste, molasses, dried fruits, a little spice, slighty musty tasting, biscuity and roasted malts in the background with a hint of chocolate and coffee.

I enjoyed the mouthfeel of this beer, carbonation quite moderate with a slightly burnt/smoked flavour in the aftertaste with a sour edge.

Overall a very pleasant winter beer that warms the palate and brings good cheer! Would definately class as an old ale, just not a strong one in terms of the typical ABV for this style.

Poured about 1 finger of head and is a beautiful dark malt in color. Not a whole lot of lacing going on. The wonderful smells of chocolate and caramelized malts started pouring out of the glass mixed in with some slight bitterness. It has a complex flavor consisting of smokey woods chocolaty undertones, and bitter sweet malts. Alcohol is fainlty present also. The mouth feel is so creamy and smooth. A delight to have swirling around on your pallet. It's a very drinkable beer, sad that I only have one that my gf brought me back from Woking, England but a wonderful opportunity to taste and amazing old ale. I would definitely drink again if I had the chance.

This beer is an Old Ale, rather than a Brown Ale IMO. Bottle-conditioned in a 500ml brown bottle, BB 09/04/09, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.

A: very dark mahogany hue when seen against light, coming with a thick layer of creamy off-white beige froth with brilliant retention. Elegant.
S: slightly sharp, damp/musty, sour edge of fruits (like grapes+plums+kriek), plus a stronger woody note coming hand in hand with a deeper layer of bitter-sweet dark chocolatey aroma, chocolate milk, light smokiness, and oily treacles... The two different sets of aromas are combined ever so smoothly, making a stimulating yet also rich and creamy note.
T: lightly sour woody and sharp grapey fruits carry a creamy-textured maltiness with it, very quickly giving way to an expanding palate of coffee-flavoured milk, an "unsweet" edge of chocolates, chewy dark malts, a dryish aftertaste of roasted walnuts and a touch of pheonol, with a semi-sticky malty undertone... all the way towards a long & chewy aftertaste of dryish wood-chips and plentiful earthy bitterness that simply refuses to disappear... Overall, the flavour is mild, understated even, but quietly complex and the flavour profile does evolve slowly but surely.
M&D: the mouthfeel is smooth, smooth, smooth... stimulated with very fine carbonation and lifted up by the finishing woody and dryish touch, this harmonious, light-medium-bodied old still remains rounded on the palate throughout the drink... This is a very successful old ale, and W. J. King has shown some very good attempts at bottle-conditioning as demonstrated by this bottle. If you like abundant but not OTT "stale-ness" of a dark ale, this is the one for you. For, the sour edge will never go away...