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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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 porterhouse (1163), Alna, Maine, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/514/20
Mar 11, 2006  
(500 ml bottle from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/freeport/ target=blank>Derosier’s) Hazy orange-amber body. Large biscuit head, gets kind of globby on surface after receding. Aroma faintly bready, a little malty, very faint hops. Mouthfeel lightly prickly, sort of watery. Lots of sloppy foamy lacing. Flavor is mild sweet maltiness with a bitter finish. Kind of bland but OK.


 mephisto (1144), Taiwan
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/55/103/59/20
Mar 10, 2006  
copper color with white head. earthy aroma and thin bodied. well balanced.


 SSSteve (2104), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/56/103/58/20
Mar 8, 2006  
boring malt and light hop aroma. orange beer with small white head. watery looking. very malty with some hops but sort of bland. thin palate.


 oldrtybastrd (1846), Morlautern, Germany/Great Falls, Montana, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Mar 7, 2006  
Pours a nice medium amber color. Aromas of toasty malts and a touch of hops. Flavor is nutty, malty, and slight hop bite.


 StueyD (590), King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Norfolk, England
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/512/20
Mar 6, 2006  
Deep golden brown colour with a strong whitish head. Not a strong smelling beer, only with a slightly malty nose. A distinct malty taste with a bitter, wheat finish. (Bottle).


 MI2CA (1266), Noblesville, Indiana, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/54/103/514/20
Mar 4, 2006  
Sample BI Indy gathering 2/25/06 - Aroma is sweet, malt, and banana. Pours yellow-brown with small head and good lacing. Flavor is pretty lame. Palate is thin and clean. My notes said to copy the Butty Bach so I did.


 frankenkitty (1903), Oak Lawn, Illinois, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/515/20
Mar 3, 2006  
Frothy, rocky, off-white, large, holding & lacing over transparent yet thick amber/copper with apparent stickiness. Sharp hops to start with green wood, light caramel and crusty breadiness (and by that I mean, "like the crust of white bread"). Creamy in the mouth, although a little on the thin side. Honey and tea bitters to start the flavor, mellowing to a nicely balanced ESB with hearty malts (lightly sweet) to balance the sharpness of the hops and yeast.

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 DJMonarch (6941), Northwich, Cheshire, England
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Feb 27, 2006  
Bottle 30/10/2002 Amber mid brown coloured and strong in alcohol. Slightly dry finish.



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