Black Sheep Golden Sheep Ale

Brewed by Black Sheep
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Ripon, England

Bright, hoppy aroma. Dry and light taste in the mouth. I honestly don’t anything but the hops in the taste. The finish is very ho-hum, boring. A fairly standard UK bitter with no flash or flare. I am sure off the tap with would be a nice beer to drink with spicey food. As for sitting back and sipping, not to much write about.

Red amber and draped with lace. Wafts with robust hopcone sweatiness, chalk and toffee. Demerara really apparent now I’ve read the bottle, but kept in check with a big, ripe, orange-accented dose of hops. Silky, slatey, slightly floral. No-nonsense hop bitterness smoothed out with creamy, faintly chocolatey malt. Aftertaste is digestive biscuit caramel sweetness with a scatter of oats. Balanced, aromatic, tasty ale.
Earlier Rating: 3/22/2007 Total Score: 3.5
Slightly sulphurous, musty nose with hints of juicy hop, cut grass and bunnypiss (compliment). That slate-like, alkaline, chalky-maltly smoothness I associate with Sam Smith’s. Punchy hop bitterness in the finish. Creamy, drawn-out biscuity afters. Pretty decent, and a very welcome antidote to Mongozo banana ’beer’.

Copper colour with a slight off-white head. Sweet malt aroma with some hay. Full mouth feel with chewy malt. Flavour had some earthy hops and a dry finish. Ok.

Bottle from Tesco’s ’Finest’ selection. Not quite golden, more in the line of copper really. Pours with a fluffy head that doesn’t stay long. Bready aroma, perhaps some dull citric notes. Dry and thin on the palate with a bitter citrus quality. Lacking in depth and refinement.

Bottle. Pours a copper colour beer. Big thrusting head of foam. Body is light/mediumn with a firmness associated with Black Sheep. Malt nose with yeast and hops in the background. taste sugary with a nice balance of hops. A nice beer.

Bottle. Clear copper amber color with a average off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, dried fruit and moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft.

Black Sheep is a good brewery, and this didn’t disappoint - a clear copper pour with good white head, aroma of malt and dried fruit. Flavour has a good balance of malts and spicy hops, smooth mouthfeel, finish bittersweet and lingering. Quaffable.

It’s a dark golden beer with a nice head and the aroma holds notes of roasted malt and aroma hops. I find the same in the flavour, that has a nice citrussy bitterness. A nice ale.