Busy Fool
Highgate Brewery Ltd
- From:
- Highgate Brewery Ltd
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 06, 2010
- Added:
- Aug 06, 2010
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England
3.88/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Classed as a Premium Ale by the brewery this 500ml brown bottle was reviewed on 6th Aug 2010, the best before date was Sept 2010.
It was poured into a vase shaped pint glass (badged 'Old Speckled Hen').
The body was a lovely clear dark amber/ mid brown colour, the head creamy in colour and texture when licked.
The aromas were of malts, lightly roasted/toasted and set aside for a while to mature. The beer gave off a caramel hue, not overly sweet, but getting that way.
The taste was mostly malts, a hop bitterness was hidden away and almost arrived in the aftertaste, but malts dominated the intitial flavour finds and took over again later. Semi-sweet molasses come to mind in explaining the body and true flavours and it is certainly on the sweet side of the rails. One of the ingrediants is listed as 'No3 Invert Black Sugar', the Fuggles and Mount Hood hops can't quiet cope with the ammount of sugar used!
I do have a sweet tooth and this beer was most enjoyable, could I have five in a row? No, but one or two would be fine.
Aug 06, 2010It was poured into a vase shaped pint glass (badged 'Old Speckled Hen').
The body was a lovely clear dark amber/ mid brown colour, the head creamy in colour and texture when licked.
The aromas were of malts, lightly roasted/toasted and set aside for a while to mature. The beer gave off a caramel hue, not overly sweet, but getting that way.
The taste was mostly malts, a hop bitterness was hidden away and almost arrived in the aftertaste, but malts dominated the intitial flavour finds and took over again later. Semi-sweet molasses come to mind in explaining the body and true flavours and it is certainly on the sweet side of the rails. One of the ingrediants is listed as 'No3 Invert Black Sugar', the Fuggles and Mount Hood hops can't quiet cope with the ammount of sugar used!
I do have a sweet tooth and this beer was most enjoyable, could I have five in a row? No, but one or two would be fine.
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