Winter Lightning
Iceni Brewery
- From:
- Iceni Brewery
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.19 | pDev: 8.68%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 04, 2014
- Added:
- Jan 12, 2006
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
2.38/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.38/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Bottle-conditioned, 500ml brown bottle, BBE Nov 2006. The label says: "Charged with Hersbrucker Hops". Served cool in a goblet.
A: dark straw hued, relatively nice clarity, coming with a fluffy white head dissipating just slowly; moderately-carbonated, with sparse big bubbles struggling out of the control of gravity.
S: interestingly blended nose, a bit like a weak lager--at first the Hersbrucker hop note is pronounced, yet weakening dramatically, and replaced by a light, white-chocolate like malty note, and a slightly sharp sweetish note of artificial flowery flavouring(?) with some sourness... Not very successful experiment with the German hops is it?
T&M: sharply-textured pale malt maltiness, with faint trace of lager-hops and a weird sour, slightly citrussy fruitiness at the back with a faintly floral hint; leaving not much to play with in the aftertaste, though the aftertaste is indeed relatively clean... but it's not something to be proud of being an ale, I think! Quite flat and watery on the mouthfeel, and the initially apparent fizziness is certainly absent on the palate.
D: a disappointing ale, pale in aroma, flavour and lack of body. A failed experiment from the Iceni brewery, I must say. Not impressed.
Other notes: Surprisingly in the second pour I accidentally allow more yeasty sediments to make my pint a cloudy one, and it tastes much more tasty, if not a totally transformed pint--with more body and a richer hoppy entry, with tea-leaves mingling better with the citrussy note. Maybe it's meant to be served cloudy?
Jan 12, 2006A: dark straw hued, relatively nice clarity, coming with a fluffy white head dissipating just slowly; moderately-carbonated, with sparse big bubbles struggling out of the control of gravity.
S: interestingly blended nose, a bit like a weak lager--at first the Hersbrucker hop note is pronounced, yet weakening dramatically, and replaced by a light, white-chocolate like malty note, and a slightly sharp sweetish note of artificial flowery flavouring(?) with some sourness... Not very successful experiment with the German hops is it?
T&M: sharply-textured pale malt maltiness, with faint trace of lager-hops and a weird sour, slightly citrussy fruitiness at the back with a faintly floral hint; leaving not much to play with in the aftertaste, though the aftertaste is indeed relatively clean... but it's not something to be proud of being an ale, I think! Quite flat and watery on the mouthfeel, and the initially apparent fizziness is certainly absent on the palate.
D: a disappointing ale, pale in aroma, flavour and lack of body. A failed experiment from the Iceni brewery, I must say. Not impressed.
Other notes: Surprisingly in the second pour I accidentally allow more yeasty sediments to make my pint a cloudy one, and it tastes much more tasty, if not a totally transformed pint--with more body and a richer hoppy entry, with tea-leaves mingling better with the citrussy note. Maybe it's meant to be served cloudy?
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