Everards / Cambridge Brewing Sgt Pepper
Everards Brewery Ltd.
- From:
- Everards Brewery Ltd.
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Specialty Saison
- ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.17 | pDev: 9.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 19, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 17, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.48/5 rDev +9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev +9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Cask half pint at JDW, Victoria Station, London. ABV was 4.2%. Brewed at Everards. Golden colour, moderate white head. Peppery and citrussy aroma. Light bodied. Distinct peppery and citrussy flavour, piquant and refreshing. The bittering hops are too moderate though.
Apr 19, 2021
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
2.69/5 rDev -15.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
2.69/5 rDev -15.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
At 4.2%abv., this is another US-UK inter-cultural beery collaboration contracted by the Wetherspoon pub chain for its recent real ale festival (Oct. 2013), brewed by the American brewer at the Everards Brewery of Leicester. Tasted by half a pint at the The Old Gaol House, a Wetherspoon pub in Winchester, served by a swan-neck hand pull.
A: pale murky dark straw in colour, coming with a very thin off-white foamy head & low carbonation.
S: lemony, floral, light gingery, boiled parsnips, gourd-sugar & other root veggies... Wheat-ish elements lurk in the background with a mild level of acidity. Very weak & unbalanced - badly executed.
T: “apparently” pepper-corn-ish against a wishy-washy watery wheat(?) malt-led base & some savoury-sweet touch as of boiled sugar-cane juice, sweet spicy wood and more thin-bodied malts, edged by a most bizarre acidic touch at the back, presumably from the special yeast strain that makes this beer a saison. Lightly dry-ish & starchy in the finish.
M&O: this cask "adventure" reminds me of a few failed attempts @ Belgian witbier on cask by British brewers. The balance is wrong, the flavour is weak, the carbonation level is messed up and the cask-conditioning is poorly managed (if not by the cellarman in this pub!). I can't imagine how it could win any award apart from having to admit that perhaps there perhaps IS a huge difference between keg- & cask-ale brewing... Looking forward to trying the bottled version to taste the original pleasure!!
Oct 27, 2013A: pale murky dark straw in colour, coming with a very thin off-white foamy head & low carbonation.
S: lemony, floral, light gingery, boiled parsnips, gourd-sugar & other root veggies... Wheat-ish elements lurk in the background with a mild level of acidity. Very weak & unbalanced - badly executed.
T: “apparently” pepper-corn-ish against a wishy-washy watery wheat(?) malt-led base & some savoury-sweet touch as of boiled sugar-cane juice, sweet spicy wood and more thin-bodied malts, edged by a most bizarre acidic touch at the back, presumably from the special yeast strain that makes this beer a saison. Lightly dry-ish & starchy in the finish.
M&O: this cask "adventure" reminds me of a few failed attempts @ Belgian witbier on cask by British brewers. The balance is wrong, the flavour is weak, the carbonation level is messed up and the cask-conditioning is poorly managed (if not by the cellarman in this pub!). I can't imagine how it could win any award apart from having to admit that perhaps there perhaps IS a huge difference between keg- & cask-ale brewing... Looking forward to trying the bottled version to taste the original pleasure!!
Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England
3.27/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.27/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Will Meyers has made his second visit to brew for a Wetherspoon real-ale festival, this time re-creating this 2012 World Beer Cup medal-winning beer at Everards Brewery, in Leicestershire. This mid-golden-coloured beer is inspired by the saison style, with four fab peppercorns harmonising with the spicy hops, while the rye malt and special Belgian yeast hold down the backbeat. Hops used: Spalt and Tettnang.
That's the official blurb: here's mine.
Hand-pulled third of a pint in the Wellington Wetherspoon's on 16th Oct 2013.
Thought it bland and boring at first, but those peppercorns began to assert themselves mid-tasting and I warmed to the brew.
Slight haze to my golden glass: small white wispy covering for a head.
The nose was uninteresting with slight hints of yeast and spices. Even later it still refused to give up any aroma worthy of note.
The beer came alive after three sips: maybe it was too cold at first, but those peppercorns certainly arrived to give the beer a different and pleasing taste. Glad I gave the beer a chance, nearly left it after the initial mouthful failed to deliver anything at all.
Oct 17, 2013That's the official blurb: here's mine.
Hand-pulled third of a pint in the Wellington Wetherspoon's on 16th Oct 2013.
Thought it bland and boring at first, but those peppercorns began to assert themselves mid-tasting and I warmed to the brew.
Slight haze to my golden glass: small white wispy covering for a head.
The nose was uninteresting with slight hints of yeast and spices. Even later it still refused to give up any aroma worthy of note.
The beer came alive after three sips: maybe it was too cold at first, but those peppercorns certainly arrived to give the beer a different and pleasing taste. Glad I gave the beer a chance, nearly left it after the initial mouthful failed to deliver anything at all.
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