Trafalgar Debau Cherry Bitter Ale
All or Nothing Brewhouse

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From:
All or Nothing Brewhouse
 
Ontario, Canada
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
5%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
2.87 | pDev: 14.63%
Reviews:
4
Ratings:
4
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Nov 16, 2006
Added:
Sep 12, 2006
Wants:
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by pootz:
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Reviewed by pootz from Canada (ON)

2.82/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
200ml bottle: One time brew..this is an ESB ale with natural cherry fruit added.

Poured a clear burnished copper color with ruby highlights into my goblet....small cap does not last or lace. Softly carbonated.

Aromas of musty grains and sour fruit and a light sweetness.

Fair malt presense, nedium-light body, soapy mouth feel.

You get to chew on some decent rye bread tastes in the front then the sour cherry and goldings combine to balance with a fruity bittering. This bittering continues into the wet finish which is abrupt but clean with a slight metallic-sour aftertaste.

An interesting use of fruit here...the cherries are picked for their sourness which seems to compliment the goldings.
Not a bad ESB but I would like to see more malt body and then there is that signature rotting yeast taste .
Sep 18, 2006
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Reviewed by Viggo from Canada (ON)

2.35/5  rDev -18.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
Pours a hazy reddish brown, small off white head forms, some lacing. Smell is cherry, something like raspberry as well, caramel, medicinal, slightly unpleasant. Taste is grainy and dry, very weak flavour, I didn't get much if any cherry at all in the taste. Mouthfeel is thin with low carbonation. Drinkable but not enjoyable.
Nov 16, 2006
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Reviewed by Sammy from Canada (ON)

2.8/5  rDev -2.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
An odd one, I like cherry and I bought it at the brewery where the scoop was that it would not be syrupy sweet. It wasn't. No head Reddish colour, dry bitterness with cherry in there all right, on the medicinal side. Almost no carbonation. Ohio gathering.Interesting aroma, with alcohol present.
Nov 12, 2006
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Reviewed by Popsinc from Canada (ON)

3.52/5  rDev +22.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
200ml bottle, pours a deep reddish-brown with minimal head...the nose is of soft, fresh cherry juices, not much else....taste wise reminded me of the Strawberry Anti-Social in that the nose had more pronounced fruitiness compared to the palate. these beers are quite similar. this beer, cherry, offers subtle cherry flavours and slight tart-woodiness on the finish....fresh and somewhat lively mouthfeel...again, the cherry flavour and pleasant mouthfeel make for a nice summer beer...a little more in the way of hops/malts might have added slightly...not a bad attempt
Sep 12, 2006
Trafalgar Debau Cherry Bitter Ale from All or Nothing Brewhouse
Beer rating: 2.87 out of 5 with 4 ratings