Black Sheep Monty Pythons Holy Grail

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

Dulled gold pour with a healthy head that really lasts. The nose is buttery with caramel malts, layered with candied fruits beneath. Medium body - carbonation is lively. More bready malts in the body note sweet toffees and butterfinger candy. Sweet and drinkable - I don’t see this as an ESB though. This would definitely do in a pinch.

500ml Bottle: How could I not drink something that’s been tempered over burning witches? They had it coming. Pours copper/yellow with a nice white foam head, very little carbonation. Decent retention but little lacing. Aroma is very, very fruity, apparently from fruity hops as promised by Black Sheep. The flavour is sadly absent, not at all what’s promised in the aroma. It’s quite bland and very watery, with only hints of bitterness on the back of the palate before it’s gone for good.

Please don’t even bother with this one -- Monty Python fan or not. I thought that it tasted like prunes (no fooling), with a horrific aftertaste. If your quest crosses this "ale," take a pass.

Nice golden pour with a short lived white haed. Aroma was yeast and honey and some sweetness as well. The brew tasted mild with tones of malt and honey and finished with a hint of grass and pear.

500 mL bottle. Amber with moderate head that mostly disappears. Smells like yeast and bruised apples. Me no like. Not so much going on with the taste. A little sweet. Bitterish finish isn’t bad.

Huge creamy white head with larger bubbles. Sweetish malty aroma with dark fruity notes and metallic hop notes. Taste is deep, sweetish faintly smoky malts with a dry, resiny, metallic finish. Bitter, resiny taste lingers. Clean, smooth mouthfeel. A good beer, but not too special. (0.5l bottle.)

Bottle. Pours a very pretty honey red gold with an ok white head. Head was gone in less than a minute. Rich but subdued honey aroma, little milk, little pear. Flavor is dominantly honey as well, but a more raw, clover honey as opposed to the out of the plastic bear honey of the aroma. Really pleasant and light red apple skin bitterness. Great taste, but just not a ton of it. Seems like this beer should just have, i dunno, more of the flavor it has. Body is watery and thin, not a good match for the flavor. Aftertaste is more of that fall fruit bitterness, but you kinda want it to go away sooner. Over all this is very tasty beer; as strange as this may sound, that is just about the only thing it has going for it. Not quite distinctive enough though.

Pours a slight hazy deep gold with a short lived white head. Aroma is grassy with hints of hay and some floral hops- lightly estery. Light bready malt with more hay and grass with a herbal grassy hop bitterness in the end. Slight metallic hints all around. Meh.