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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%89English 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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 AWS9 (233), Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/513/20
Nov 20, 2008  
Bottle at Pub Italia in Ottawa. Cool bottle. Nice brown appearance. Nuts and malt in the taste, perhaps a little thin. Pretty good.


 daknole (3032), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/51/102/51/20
Nov 15, 2008  
Ok this was a drainpour for me and everyone that tried it. it barely tasted better than a miller. i dont get how this can have a rating above a 3. no way.


 mgermani (867), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/102/512/20
Nov 2, 2008  
Pours a clear amber-orange with a brief head falling to a lingering ring of foam. Alcoholic, white grape & slightly funky hop aroma. Stale malt and funky hop taste, carastan cereal & Kentish goldings. Finish is long, but compromising in taste (more of the stale malt extract taste). Moderate carbonation. Towards the end a fly flew into the glass and died, but it didn’t seem to improve the flavour any. Interesting but quite far from fresh.


 mesperon (152), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/104/58/20
Oct 31, 2008  
foggy amber, medium foamy head. Very faint aroma of mildy swwet malt, hay, and grassy hops. Flavor of bready malt, mild grassy hoppy itterness. Little pepperiness from alcohol. Boring in general, nothing especially pleasant or interesting about it.


 DrDavid (957), Johnson, Vermont, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/514/20
Oct 31, 2008  
(Bottle). Sweet caramel aroma. Hazy orange-amber body with a nice fluffy off-white head. Taste is malty and nutty, and finishes with some pleasant bitterness. Enjoyable.


 terrybail (340), London, Ontario, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Oct 28, 2008  
500ml bottle from the LCBO A more detailed description will follow on a second tasting I have misplaced my comments for this beer


 jstraw (777), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Oct 22, 2008  
Caramel amber with good, foamy beige head / Sweet, cooked, malty nose / Medium body, slightly sticky, with good malts and a touch of hops on the good finish / Sweet, flavors of spun sugar, cooked fruit, and bread / A solid, if unspectacular, bitter.


 rodenbach99 (708), Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Oct 13, 2008  
bouteille de 500ml, belle couleur cuivrée, nez houblonnée, bouche ronde, agréable, sucrée, bonne bitter ronde.



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