Here are the beer cellar reviews, listed according to their scores. Those graded
with identical scores are listed together, without any significance to their
internal order.
Beer | Brewery | ABV (%) | Comments | Score:/10 |
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Union Bitter | Grand Union | 3.70 | Biiter with prominant aftertaste, but light in colour. Some citris. | 6.0 |
Pickled Partridge | Badger (aka Hall & Woodhouse) | 4.60 | Dark orange/amber colour. Slight hollowness to it, with touch of caramel. | 6.0 |
Barbar | Lefebvre | 8.00 | Bitter and fizzy that often loses the honey taste. Second fermentation in bottle. | 6.0 |
Adelardus | Kerkom | 7.00 | Very dark ruby colour, thin wet brown taste. No real aftertaste, so good for food. | 6.0 |
Quintine-La Biere des Collines | Brasserie Ellezelloise | 8.50 | Pitch black, line of bitterness at back sides of mouth. | 6.0 |
Dreher Pils | Dreher | 5.20 | Clean crisp, pils, with a full head. From Hungary's oldest brewery. | 6.0 |
Cantillon Geuze | Cantillon Brewery | 5.00 | Organic gueuze with and old smell, and no cider. Parallels to cider with tartness to mouth, no sweetness. | 6.0 |
Lambic Exotic | Chapeau De Troch | 3.50 | Very strong fruit hit, with tartness and sweet touches around the mouth. | 6.0 |
Wittekerke Witbier | Bavik | 5.00 | Beer for a hot summers day. Light, not overpowering taste. Slight cactus and/or lime. | 6.0 |
Big Lamp Bitter | Big Lamp | 3.90 | Straight bitter taste and texture. | 6.0 |
Five Bridges | Mordue Brewery | 3.80 | Predominately hoppy beer with some fruit tastes running through it. Amber in colour, but more bitter than perhaps you'd expect. Prominent in part because bitterness carries on to the aftertaste | 6.0 |
Lia Fail | Inveralmond | 4.00 | Reasonable bitter, with fruit layers over tongue which hold well. Similar tastes to fruit and nut chocolate (+1 if you like that) Don't let it stand, as it turns sharp at end. | 6.0 |
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale | Sierra Nevada | 5.60 | Bottle conditioned with truly golden colour. Looks of honey, but taste slightly apricot and/or peach. | 6.0 |
Kostritzer Schwarzbier | Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei | 4.80 | Solid black, light foam, hollow malt taste on tongue, with watery aftertaste in throat. Little to gassy. | 6.0 |
Waterloo Blone | Du Bocq | 7.50 | Fairly smooth, aftertaste of Co2, but otherwise non-descript fizziness, and average blone taste | 6.0 |
Fffado Amber | Millevertus sprl Brasserie Artis | 5.00 | Bitter spiciness. Highly golden. | 6.0 |
La Binchoise Brune | La Binchoise | 8.20 | Very deep ruby red brown. Respectable, but uneventful. | 6.0 |
Hydes Trojan Horse | Hydes Brewery | 4.20 | Smooth, non-fizzy texture. Rounded malt taste. Ok balance of bitter-sweet. | 6.0 |
Nightjar | White Park | 4.50 | Aromd of roasted malts starts well, but lack of complex tastes, and watery follow through, is a let down | 6.0 |
I Beer | Art Brew | 4.00 | Light golden, with soft honey and vanilla aroma and taste. Bitter aftertaste. Vanilla follow through dominates, possibly to excess. | 6.0 |
George's Best | Mauldons | 4.40 | Light golden colour, but very smooth mouthfeel. Bitter has soft touch, with it hitting soft but fair at start, and disappates in mouth. | 6.0 |
Dragons Bite | | 0.00 | Golden, with initial hop bitter bite. Quickly disappates in taste, so quick in fact, as to leave you with nothing but a light bitter coat in throat. | 6.0 |
Govier Dry Cider | Govier | 6.00 | Dry with slightly sour vinegar taste | 6.0 |
Sarah's Day | | 6.00 | Thin and golden cider | 6.0 |
Hidden Pint | Hidden Brewery | 3.80 | Mid brown with light hop aroma, and bitter finish. Decent enough, but uneventful | 6.0 |
Nutty | ØRBÆK | 5.00 | Light golden brown with a red tinge, medium head. Undiscernable aroma. Subtle essence of nuts leaning towards hazelnut | 6.0 |
Buccaneer Xmas | Ertvelde brewery | 9.50 | Fizz overpowers the soft taste. | 6.0 |
Brodies Amarilla | Brodies | 4.20 | Pale ale with unusual (Armarilla) hop. Like a weak Bulgarian brandy, but without the aromatic nose. | 6.0 |
Raspbeery | Meantime | 6.50 | Defies expectation: not Belgian in style. Not sweet. Slight sour taste, growing in after-taste. (sour difference here is akin to that of cherry and morella cherry). Good approach to sourness, but no sense of wonder like a good gueze. | 6.0 |
Sara's Ruby Mild | Magnolia Brew Pub | 3.90 | Very light with a touch of ruby, even less of mild. Fizz, especially on a/t. | 6.0 |
Cole Porter | Magnolia Brew Pub | 4.80 | Black with brown foam head. It's dry w/bitterness but the malt notes are only present in a/t, and limited at that. Psychosomatic traces of coffee. Looks the part, but doesn't deliver | 6.0 |
Auld Hemp | Highland Brewery | 3.80 | Soft in taste and mouthfeel. Possibly session beer for newbies. Nothing to remember. | 6.0 |
Original Sin Pear Cider | Original Sin | 6.00 | Drinkable but so non-descript, I didn't bother making notes. | 6.0 |
Hobo | Hobo Beer co | 5.10 | Smooth creamy texturing, but lacking any bite. But it's a craft czech lager in a can!?!? | 6.0 |
Smithwick | Dundalk (Diageo) | 3.80 | Light cream tongue, with fizz. But nothing else special enough to write about | 6.0 |
Welsh Pride (Balchder Cymru) | Bragdy Conwy Brewery | 4.00 | Pale with decent enough taste, but satiates quickly | 6.0 |
Cwrw Draig Aur | Robinsons | 4.10 | Disapointing beer from an other exceptional brewer. The empty malt taste belies the apparent full body and rich malt and hops. | 6.0 |
Happy Daze Med Cider | Gwynt Y Ddraig | 4.60 | Non-descript Welsh cider | 6.0 |
Bowling Jack | Unknown | 0.00 | Found in Krakow. Has an edge of bitterness with cuts off any flavour developing. Needs food to divert from this fact. +1 to score if food is present. | 6.0 |
Dry Cider | Dan y Graig | 6.00 | Dry cider with apple bite, but overall furry mouthfeel (even early on) makes it non-session. Have a half. | 6.0 |
Bread of Heaven | Brains | 4.00 | Highly average age, pretending to be a light ruby. | 6.0 |
Dream Catcher | Oakham | 6.90 | Red beer with obligatory cherry flavours. Otherwise, other berry flavours are there but distracting. Dry beer with marzipan touches. | 6.0 |
Tabatha | Partners | 6.00 | A flat and slight source dry bitter. Pretends to be a Belgian triple, but is no where near. | 6.0 |
Boltmaker | Timothy Taylor | 4.00 | Proper Yorkshire bitter with very little to commend or distract. | 6.0 |
Little Big Beer | Little Big Beer | 2.00 | Intended as a lunch-time beer with taste. It is: but taste of hazelnut and coffee in odd ratios. In 2016 was brewed by Bath Ales, and it takes like their usual but gone off a bit. | 6.0 |
Blone | Savour | 5.80 | Pine and fruity are lurking here, but it was too skunky and stodgy to get through | 6.0 |
Yellow Cab Lager | Evil Twin Brewing | 4.80 | Pale and clear lager, lacking depth of interest | 6.0 |