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Black Sheep Ale 3.17 593

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
5933.18/5.03.17/5.04.4%89.2English 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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 UselessGdTaste (363), Long Beach, California, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/511/20
Dec 21, 2006  
Sweet flavor with not much else happening. Tasted almost watered down. I could understand this after drinking more robust beers, but this was the first tasting of the night. Very weak on just about everything...


elav8 (4), Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
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4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/518/20
Dec 17, 2006  
Moderate head, little darker than an average ale. has some tastesof caramel and nuts. good flavor, good beer


 ABUSEDGOAT (1934), California, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Dec 9, 2006  
Darker amber, moderate head, average lacing. Aroma is fruity with notes of nuts and caramel. Flavors don’t jump out at you, but what is here is good... just came off as limited.


 probstk (1064), Nepean, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/512/20
Dec 5, 2006  
500 mL bottle from LCBO. App.: pours med. amber with a tight, off white head. Aroma: pleasant sweet maltiness, vinous notes, a slight nuttiness. Palate: med.-light body with fairly aggressive carbonation. Flav.: quite dry, some malt comes through, a bit of tartness and a fairly lengthy, mild-moderate bitter finish. I would have liked a bit more flavour, but not too bad.


 SledgeJr (2977), Omaha, Nebraska, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Nov 26, 2006  
In the bottle at the HyVee Oktoberfest beer tasting in Council Bluffs. Medium amber color. Nutty sweet aroma reminiscent of chestnuts. Rich off-white head. Medium palate, with great lacing. Finishes with a mild hop profile. 3


 beervana (781), Libertyville, Illinois, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Nov 20, 2006  
(07.28.06) One pint 0.9 oz brown bottle from DiCarlo’s, Mundelein, IL. Roasted malt with slight skunk aromas. Poured clear amber with medium white head. Soft carbonation. Light-to-medium bodied ale that starts dry with light toasted malt flavor. Slight bitterness in the middle. Quick dry finish. Though rather thin and watery, this is a decent drinkable bitter ale nonetheless.


datebeer (23), brooklyn, New York, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Nov 17, 2006  
Tofee aromas, smooth fruit palatte, malty finish. (1 pt and 9 fl oz). The package and the aromas alone are worth the four dollars i spent!


 rederic (1815), montréal, Quebec, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Nov 14, 2006  
Amber color, with a frothy beige head, malty nose, with a biscuity malt, nutty, faint hops aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a crisp cramelized, and biscuity malts, with a bready dough note, some nutty and hops bitterness accents, leading towards an earthy maltiness and flowery hops bittering finish.



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