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Belhaven St Andrews Ale (Bottle)

Percentile
72
overall
Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB

Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
5433.27/5.03.27/5.04.6%80.7English pint
Commercial Description:
Bottle: Pasteurised.
A full-bodied and malty ale with a rounded, smooth fruit palate and a tight, creamy head that laces all the way down the glass. Rich in colour with a smooth, creamy texture and a distinctively strong flavour.
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 Maria (6265), Thisted, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/512/20
Jun 10, 2007    Updated: Jun 21, 2007
Dark amber with a nice, creamy head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel and it has a hint of fruit. The flavour has notes of malt, caramel, straw, mash and slightly fruity hops. It’s uncomplicated and easy to drink. June 07. Old rating 5-3-5-3-8=2,4: It’s a dark amber beer with a nice head. The aroma has an odd note, that I cannot pinpoint, but it spoils the entire impression for me, even when I taste it. The flavour is a bit sweet and rather malty. I’ll have to resample this one, since this was on of my very early ratings.


 JorisPPattyn (5174), Antwerpen, Belgium
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Jun 8, 2007  
Medium, whipped eggwhite head, over clear foxy-amber beer. Bit sourish nose at first. Reminds me for some reason of wet moor ground/plants; then a bit of caramel and some discreet hops, ending again leafy/earthy. Ashes taste, as well as earthy. Bit smoked, even meaty but then going deeper, into leafy, mossy realms. Unfortunately, plagued by the British disease, known as too much water. Which makes the flavours fade away into strathospheric space. The onset was glorious, but the campaign drowned itself in the watery lowlands. Thanks, Craig.


 shrubber85 (2912), Wallhalben, Germany
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/57/103/512/20
May 31, 2007  
Bottle. Sour barley malt aroma. Clear brown with big head. Caramel malt flavor with light smokiness. Nice beer.


 tomer (380), Rishon Le Zion, Israel
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/105/515/20
May 31, 2007  
355ml bottle. beautiful dark orange colour. aromas of hay and reminder of the sea. nicemalty sweetness combined with a pleasing sourness that lingers to a very satisfying finish. Intresting and very good.


 Allen (1387), Switzerland
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/514/20
May 23, 2007    Updated: Jul 20, 2007
Bottled 355ml. It pours an amber beer. Extremely interesting aromas of smoky malt, peat, lemon, slightly musty; the nose reminds me of sorbet too. Very nice. Malty, rather sweet and peaty. The peatiness really adds to the taste. Smoky with some pineapple. Hints of licorice and wood in the finish. Quite good.


 doubelknv3 (568), Illinois, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/56/103/511/20
May 13, 2007  
Licorise and barley sweet aroma. Clear copper with very thin head. Farily well balanced malts and hops; more malt notes than hops. Smooth start to finish.


 FrankJohansen (3369), Århus-Randers Crew, Denmark
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
May 9, 2007  
Bottle. Clear amber colour with a decent white head. Rich aroma and taste of malts and fruits. Semi bitter finish.


 LinusStick (1846), Moon Twp, suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
Apr 22, 2007  
A nice ESB. Pour was a dark gold with a one finger off white head. Aroma of grassy hops. Taste was grass and hops with a malt backbone to balance it out. Good carbonation and a solid taste balance this out nicely.



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