Big Ben
Daniel Thwaites Brewery PLC
- From:
- Daniel Thwaites Brewery PLC
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
Ranked #94 - ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- 84
Ranked #32,213 - Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 12.02%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 9
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 04, 2022
- Added:
- Feb 07, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 10
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.5/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
330 ml bottle, as Crafty Dan Big Ben, from the Norwegian importer. Clear dark reddish brown colour, low off-white to beige head. Aroma of caramel and brown bread, also some fruity and earthy hops. Malty flavour with bready notes and some caramel, but not too sweet. Also fruity hops, roasty notes in the finish. Nice enough to drink. Drank it fairly cold, refreshing.
Jun 04, 2022
Reviewed by RStansel from Canada (MB)
3.84/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Toffee-dipped black cherries winning on the nose here, with a gorgeous, dark mahogany brown colour; low head retention; light carbonation & slight residual sugar, cherry nib & leafy hop flavours with a somewhat biscuity finish. Nice hop-malt balance on this.
Feb 05, 2015
Reviewed by BeerDrinkersWorldTour from Northern Ireland
4.18/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.18/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Appearance - Very dark brown with a lovely foamy beige/tobacco head that has average retention and dies to a lace cover in around 4 minutes. There is also some very slight CO2 evidence in the glass.
Smell - Good red fruit and light biscuit caramel sweet malt in the profile. The red fruit seems to lean towards the forest fruits; raspberry and cherry being the most obvious. There is also definetly some bitter chocolate and pine hop in here.
Taste - The hop of the piney variety kicks in at the start then rides through to the sweet malts, caramel and fruit; blackberry, strawberry, damsen, plum, loganberry and cherry. There is also some wine like grape elements to this one. After this the chocolate kicks in and finishes with a final pine flourish.
MF - Creamy and light in body this beer has a drying tingly finish.
Overall - This beer promised a bitter sweet resonance and they delivered it in bucket loads. The mouth feel is not as strong as the rest of the experience but it is still very good.
Dec 07, 2014Smell - Good red fruit and light biscuit caramel sweet malt in the profile. The red fruit seems to lean towards the forest fruits; raspberry and cherry being the most obvious. There is also definetly some bitter chocolate and pine hop in here.
Taste - The hop of the piney variety kicks in at the start then rides through to the sweet malts, caramel and fruit; blackberry, strawberry, damsen, plum, loganberry and cherry. There is also some wine like grape elements to this one. After this the chocolate kicks in and finishes with a final pine flourish.
MF - Creamy and light in body this beer has a drying tingly finish.
Overall - This beer promised a bitter sweet resonance and they delivered it in bucket loads. The mouth feel is not as strong as the rest of the experience but it is still very good.
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