Ramsbottom Strong Ale
Dent Brewery
- From:
- Dent Brewery
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 19, 2008
- Added:
- Mar 01, 2005
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
-
-
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England
3.44/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.44/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Brown 500ml bottle, unable to read the best before date, hope it was OK.
Poured into a Corsendonk tulip glass twice, because I can.
Lovely dark brown colour, mahogany wood brown, no head, just a collar almost straight away. I like to have a head on my beers though.
The aroma is all about the malts used in the brew, rich toasted almost burnt smell, warming is another way of putting it.
The taste doesn't live up to the richness of the aromas, still flavoursome and very malty none the less, hops also appear within taste, a sweetness comes into the beer as it warms too.
Maltiness apart, there is very little to this beer and you would never guess it had 4.5% within.
Was` expecting more from this, not as good as I'd hoped, average at best.
Update 17th Feb 2012: Had a pint (Cask) last night and really enjoyed it. Those malt flavours I mentioned in the original review were still in major control but the overall tasting was a lot more balanced and if I'd been scoring the beer on last nights findings it would have been higher in every box apart from the smell score which would have stayed at 4.
Feb 19, 2008Poured into a Corsendonk tulip glass twice, because I can.
Lovely dark brown colour, mahogany wood brown, no head, just a collar almost straight away. I like to have a head on my beers though.
The aroma is all about the malts used in the brew, rich toasted almost burnt smell, warming is another way of putting it.
The taste doesn't live up to the richness of the aromas, still flavoursome and very malty none the less, hops also appear within taste, a sweetness comes into the beer as it warms too.
Maltiness apart, there is very little to this beer and you would never guess it had 4.5% within.
Was` expecting more from this, not as good as I'd hoped, average at best.
Update 17th Feb 2012: Had a pint (Cask) last night and really enjoyed it. Those malt flavours I mentioned in the original review were still in major control but the overall tasting was a lot more balanced and if I'd been scoring the beer on last nights findings it would have been higher in every box apart from the smell score which would have stayed at 4.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.43/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.43/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Filtered, coming in a 500ml long-neck brown bottle.
BBE 07/2006, "Batch 1312". Served cool in a straight imperial-pint glass.
A: beautifully clear dark tawny hue, coming with a very thick and tight frothy, off-white head, good retention due to consistent support of gentle fizziness~~
S: melted black-sugar like maltiness and lightly sweet flowery and herbal scent, like a kind of Chinese herb-jelly, mingle very well together~~ some sweet-potato like vegetation aroma supports at the back along with more soft malts.
T: toffee-ish maltiness with a refreshing sour, grassy hint prevails immediately on the palate, resembling the texture and flavour of a kind of Chinese herb-jelly made of "Mesona Chinensis Benth" (wondering who knows what the Latin name really means, but the Chinese and Vietnamese people eat a lot of this as desert)~~ A lingering taste of dried wolfberries, slightly bitter-sweet herbal hoppyness and a light-bodied malty overtone sustain in the finish.
M&D: slightly thin-bodied it is, though the pleasant herbal-sweet maltiness with its unique bitter edge makes up for the lack of weight. Not bad for a malty bitter, but the overall impression is somewhat un-inspiring...
Feb 20, 2006BBE 07/2006, "Batch 1312". Served cool in a straight imperial-pint glass.
A: beautifully clear dark tawny hue, coming with a very thick and tight frothy, off-white head, good retention due to consistent support of gentle fizziness~~
S: melted black-sugar like maltiness and lightly sweet flowery and herbal scent, like a kind of Chinese herb-jelly, mingle very well together~~ some sweet-potato like vegetation aroma supports at the back along with more soft malts.
T: toffee-ish maltiness with a refreshing sour, grassy hint prevails immediately on the palate, resembling the texture and flavour of a kind of Chinese herb-jelly made of "Mesona Chinensis Benth" (wondering who knows what the Latin name really means, but the Chinese and Vietnamese people eat a lot of this as desert)~~ A lingering taste of dried wolfberries, slightly bitter-sweet herbal hoppyness and a light-bodied malty overtone sustain in the finish.
M&D: slightly thin-bodied it is, though the pleasant herbal-sweet maltiness with its unique bitter edge makes up for the lack of weight. Not bad for a malty bitter, but the overall impression is somewhat un-inspiring...
We love reviews (150 characters or more)! Check out: How to Review a Beer. You don't need to get fancy. Drop some thoughts on the beer's attributes (look, smell, taste, feel) plus your overall impression. Something that backs up your rating and helps others. Thanks!