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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
5913.18/5.03.17/5.04.4%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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 JesseM (666), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
Aug 7, 2007  
500ml bottle. Pours a nice amber-orange colour with a lot of tan head. The aroma is typical to that of a bitter, with a little alcohol, not that impressive to me. But then the flavour opens up with some nice malts, toffee, caramel, the usuals, but well blended, and it finishes with some strong hops, to give way for the very bitter and dry after taste. A very decent brew indeed.


 puboflyons (605), New Hampshire, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/55/103/511/20
Aug 3, 2007  
1 pt 09 fl oz (US) bottle. Pours caramel color. Not a lot of head or lacing. Pungent aroma of hops. Medium mouth feel and an adequate bitter taste. A lingering aftertaste. Not a tremendous brew but it was OK.


 BDR (2160), Roseville, Minnesota, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Jul 25, 2007  
From my fall 2006 notebook. Not as bitter as I expected. Mostly malt in the aroma and body with a faint bitter aftertaste.


 VeloVampire (490), Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Jul 18, 2007  
500 ml bottle - pours beautiful caramel amber with thick, creamy one-finger head that leaves thick lacing. Big fruity Goldings aroma along with some hay and toffee, and an earthiness as well. Flavour is mainly toffee malt to start then parlays into a lingering dry, dry, dry, bitter finish. Some very faint spiciness from the yeast as well. A fantastic English bitter, and a perfect session beer.


 badlizard (2345), Berkeley, California, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Jul 14, 2007  
500 mL bottle. Orange amber with fizzy white head. Sweet malty aroma. Sweet malty taste with fruity notes and a brassy slightly bitter finiah.


 nearbeer (1834), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/514/20
Jul 14, 2007  
500 mL. Clear amber-orange with a large meringue topping that lasts. Aromas of spicy herbs, raisins and apples. Tastes of butterscotch, toffee and sourish apples on the front with some delicately bitter, grassy hops on the end. Palate is creamy, slightly dry, and light-medium bodied with very little carbonation tingle.


 Geiserich (1781), Vienna, Austria
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/58/20
Jul 9, 2007  
Dark golden color. Aroma is sourly but all in all few aroma. Flavor is sourly, yeasty, hops in the end. Light herbal. dry finish.


 tangentrider (144), USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 9, 2007  
malty aroma; light amber one inch head; good lacing; long, hoppy finish; I will have it again.



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