Tesco Simply Dark Ale
Marston's Plc.
- From:
- Marston's Plc.
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.2 | pDev: 5.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 08, 2013
- Added:
- Apr 02, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England
3.34/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.34/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
bottled
Pours out in a deep dark brown colour with low ehad and medium body. Aroma of barley and hops. Taste of barley, bread, roasted hops, caramel, vanilla, dark berries and leaves. Earthy hints. easy drinkable nd refreshing. Not a bad beer.
Nov 01, 2013Pours out in a deep dark brown colour with low ehad and medium body. Aroma of barley and hops. Taste of barley, bread, roasted hops, caramel, vanilla, dark berries and leaves. Earthy hints. easy drinkable nd refreshing. Not a bad beer.
Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England
3.43/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
50cl Bottle: BBD 31 Jul 2014, poured into an Abbot Ale glass tankard on 14 Oct 2013.
Over chilled it.
Good deep beige head on top of a lovely clear, mahogany body: looked good.
The nose began to give off some malty notes as it warmed and they were also prominent in the taste, not as sweet as I half expected, this had a more semi-sour fruitiness feel to the flavour than malty molasses: traces of bitter, dark chocolate also appeared later in the aroma and taste
Medium bodied with a little too much carbonation for my palate, the hops giving a fine bitter finish to a beer that got better each degree it warmed.
Oct 14, 2013Over chilled it.
Good deep beige head on top of a lovely clear, mahogany body: looked good.
The nose began to give off some malty notes as it warmed and they were also prominent in the taste, not as sweet as I half expected, this had a more semi-sour fruitiness feel to the flavour than malty molasses: traces of bitter, dark chocolate also appeared later in the aroma and taste
Medium bodied with a little too much carbonation for my palate, the hops giving a fine bitter finish to a beer that got better each degree it warmed.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
3/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Purchased at the local branch of the Tesco supermarket, this is a Tesco-branded brew and in fact the label doesn’t specify the brewery. Coming in a 500ml brown glass bottle, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass. Notes: The ingredients, according to the back label, include Tipple Pale Ale, Crystal and Chocolate malts, and Fuggles, Golding and Styrian hops.
A: pours a mahogany or dark reddish brown colour, topped with a short-lived beige foamy head while the carbonation comes sporadic and faint.
S: sour-sweet orangey and slightly prune-ish at the same time, on a solid and rather pleasant backbone of roast malts, pale malts and crystal malts with hints of caramelised sugar and brown toast, as in a Munich Dunkel even, while a very light tinge of salted-sweetness as of preserved hawthorn fruits stays in a remote corner.
T: quite sprizty, the thin-bodied foretaste of crystal malts, brown bread and roast-tea-ish bitter-sweetness goes extremely thin towards a sour-ish fruity-malty, mildly bitter and licorice-like aftertaste, where herbal bitterness from Fuggles hops and faint fruity hoppiness from Golding are scattered around. The flavour profile is thrown into shambles in every sip, disappointingly so.
M&O: the mouthfeel is really thin against rather spritzy carbonation, turning watery as each sip goes. This light-bodied, rather messy and insufficiently bitter Best Bitter has failed to reach a healthy balance b/w malts and hops; where the aroma fairs, the palate and flavour compensate with emptiness… Altogether, this is a weak (in flavour), unsuccessful bottled ale made by the Marston’s Brewery for the brand “Simply…” contracted by the Tesco supermarket chain. Both parties, Marston’s and Tesco, could’ve done better.
Apr 02, 2013A: pours a mahogany or dark reddish brown colour, topped with a short-lived beige foamy head while the carbonation comes sporadic and faint.
S: sour-sweet orangey and slightly prune-ish at the same time, on a solid and rather pleasant backbone of roast malts, pale malts and crystal malts with hints of caramelised sugar and brown toast, as in a Munich Dunkel even, while a very light tinge of salted-sweetness as of preserved hawthorn fruits stays in a remote corner.
T: quite sprizty, the thin-bodied foretaste of crystal malts, brown bread and roast-tea-ish bitter-sweetness goes extremely thin towards a sour-ish fruity-malty, mildly bitter and licorice-like aftertaste, where herbal bitterness from Fuggles hops and faint fruity hoppiness from Golding are scattered around. The flavour profile is thrown into shambles in every sip, disappointingly so.
M&O: the mouthfeel is really thin against rather spritzy carbonation, turning watery as each sip goes. This light-bodied, rather messy and insufficiently bitter Best Bitter has failed to reach a healthy balance b/w malts and hops; where the aroma fairs, the palate and flavour compensate with emptiness… Altogether, this is a weak (in flavour), unsuccessful bottled ale made by the Marston’s Brewery for the brand “Simply…” contracted by the Tesco supermarket chain. Both parties, Marston’s and Tesco, could’ve done better.
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