Courage Investiture Ale
Eagle Brewery
- From:
- Eagle Brewery
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Strong Ale
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.9 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 31, 2009
- Added:
- May 31, 2009
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Traquairlover from Virginia
3.9/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.9/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
I am adding this to the database because there are still a few of these bottles out there. I believe they are past their prime, but they can still be enjoyed for what they are. FWIW, Courage was using cork lined caps in 1969, and had not yet switched to synthetic.
A = Murky reddish brown, virtually no head.
S = Strong smell of plasticine, vanilla, slight traces of almond scented syrup.
T = Strong pure stripped vanilla bean flavors backed by a solid maple syrup malt base. Even with no remaining carbonation (and I'm assuming that this did have carbonation when young, though probably light even then) this is actually a superior brew. There are slight pure cocoa powder tastes, too. This is really a taste you can only find in a really old strong ale, and this is a very good one.
M = Heavy body, good mouthcoating, completely flat.
D = Well, this is a hard one. I could drink these all day, but I have a palate that through practice has become very refined for this type of beer. If you drink older beers like this, you will probably find this very drinkable. If you don't, well, then you probably won't. I think at the end of the day it is the type of beer that will be enjoyed by some immensely, by others not at all and some by some it will be tolerated in a perplexed wtf is this type of experience. So I give it a little better than average because I love it, but it's not for everyone to drink down easily and want another.
If anyone can use it as a reference, I find this very similar to the 1946 brew of the Ballantine Burton Ale.
May 31, 2009A = Murky reddish brown, virtually no head.
S = Strong smell of plasticine, vanilla, slight traces of almond scented syrup.
T = Strong pure stripped vanilla bean flavors backed by a solid maple syrup malt base. Even with no remaining carbonation (and I'm assuming that this did have carbonation when young, though probably light even then) this is actually a superior brew. There are slight pure cocoa powder tastes, too. This is really a taste you can only find in a really old strong ale, and this is a very good one.
M = Heavy body, good mouthcoating, completely flat.
D = Well, this is a hard one. I could drink these all day, but I have a palate that through practice has become very refined for this type of beer. If you drink older beers like this, you will probably find this very drinkable. If you don't, well, then you probably won't. I think at the end of the day it is the type of beer that will be enjoyed by some immensely, by others not at all and some by some it will be tolerated in a perplexed wtf is this type of experience. So I give it a little better than average because I love it, but it's not for everyone to drink down easily and want another.
If anyone can use it as a reference, I find this very similar to the 1946 brew of the Ballantine Burton Ale.
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