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Black Sheep Ale 3.17 592

Black Sheep Ale

Percentile
63
overall
Brewed by Black Sheep
Style: Bitter

Ripon, England

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
5923.18/5.03.17/5.04.4%89.1English pint
Commercial Description:
Bottle; Pasteurised.
"Beers for bottling are drawn from brewery conditioning tanks and transported by road tanker to our bottlers. There they are chilled, stored for ten days, then filtered and bottled. At the end of the bottling process, the bottles are pasteurised, labelled and packed."
"Brewed with many generous handfuls of choice Golding hops, it is full flavoured ale with a rich fruit nose. The bittersweet malty taste is followed by an uncompromising long, dry and bitter finish. This beer was the first, most successful, of all of our bottled beers."
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 wilderthanyou (418), Guelph, Ontario, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 28, 2007  
Copper colour with a big foamy offwhite head. Aroma is grainy with some sweeter malt notes. Flavour is very grainy, with alot of dry hop flavour and a tinge of metal. A nice bitter dry hoppy finish but to watery. Still not bad, just not great.


 tomthompson89 (1489), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/102/58/20
Sep 27, 2007  
copper color, lotsa fluffy white head, noty alot of nose some malts, kinda malty kinda grassy some stale hops not really much to talk about


 mkofron (155), St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/512/20
Sep 25, 2007  
Amber with offwhite head. Very sweet malty aroma. Thin watery body. Not very bitter.


 madscotsman (147), Fairview Heights, Illinois, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 23, 2007  
Poured amber in color with an off-white head. Some malt in the aroma. Had a watery taste, but a decent bitter finish.


 matt7215 (979), Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Sep 17, 2007  
500 ml bottle. pours amber with a small white head. mostly malty nose but some hops present. flavours start with maltyness and then the hops punch out a terrific bitter finish. too thin to be really good but a very good effort.


 estoppel (1028), Buffalo, New York, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Sep 16, 2007  
Bottle. Amber body, nice off-white foamy head, Goldings nose. Basically tastes like Bass Pale Ale with a bit more depth.


 dchmela (1444), Orlando, Florida, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/104/516/20
Sep 10, 2007  
Pours amber colored with a fluffy white head. Slightly malty touch of bitter hops aroma. Smooth malty taste with a hop bitterness that is very flavorful. Dry and slightly bitter aftertaste. Wow, this is a really tasty beer.


 bhensonb (4341), Woodland, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Sep 7, 2007  
500 ml bottle from Liquid Solutions. Aroma of malt, caramel, maybe nuts, and that wonderful fruity floral hop of the English bitters. Nice amber color with an off-white head that laced and stayed. Thin to medium bodied, near creamy carbonation. The flavor starts with floral hop, quickly followed by biscuit and caramel malt. The finish is malty, but not all that sweet, fruity, and bitter. In the end it’s dry and bitter. Wonderful stuff.



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