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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
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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 oberabcbbsok (686), Hoboken, Belgium
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/514/20
May 19, 2007  
Bottle. A very nice tasting beer although not strong at all. Adry bitter beer and the taste of malrs and hops makes it a fine good beer. Also a complex taste


 patrick767 (2033), fort wayne, Indiana, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
May 16, 2007  
bottle - Pours a dark copper color with a large head that quickly fades to thin. English malts and mild hops dominate the aroma. Caramel malts and mild hops hold up the flavor of this ale that starts too watery, but as expected improves as it warms. It’s lightly carbonated and has a dry, moderately bitter finish. Pretty good ale.


 garthicus (1290), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/103/56/104/514/20
May 9, 2007  
Pours with a quickly dissapating head, golden colour, faint grass aroma with caramel, tastes bitter with tones of toffee and copper, I am starting to like these ESB/Bitter type beers!


 maniac (2628), Richmond, Virginia, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
May 7, 2007  
Clear light amber body with a large frothy off-white head. Sweet malty caramel aroma with some light floral hops. Sweet caramel and dry malt flavor. Light floral hops.


 jammin7jg (139), Withington, Manchester, England
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/512/20
May 6, 2007  
[BOTTLED: 16/04/07] A mideocre ale. I really enjoyed Black Sheep Best bitter from the cask so was expecting more from this. A reasonable tast. Average ale overall.


 Cybercat (798), Georgia, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/104/516/20
Apr 28, 2007  
A very nice ale, if not fantastic. Appearance was hard to gauge due to its coming in a brown (but rather pretty) bottle. Aroma is malty with a whisper of sweetness, very inviting. Taste has some surprising hoppiness and a little bitterness, but is still malty with smoky undertones. This is a pleasant ale worth enjoying and savoring, rather than chugging at a party or sipping with dinner.


 tarjei (1753), Bryne, Norway
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/512/20
Apr 28, 2007  
Bottle 0,5 l. Dark amber, nice off-white head. Fruit and flowers, sweet bitterness. A bit to thin, otherwise this would be a winner.


 GG (1640), NorCal, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Apr 27, 2007  
I gotta say that as far as ESB’s go, this one is right up there. A nice caramel sweet nose, with nothing done overboard. Appearance is a cloudy amber color. Flavors were carmel with an interesting hop attack that smooths everything out. Easy drinking for sure, and it beats the pants off the other stuff made from these guys. Not bad!



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