Black Sheep Riggwelter (Bottle)

Brewed by Black Sheep
Style: Old Ale
Ripon, England

500 ml bottle from LCBO. Pours dark, dark brown, with reddish tinge. Pours thick tan coured head, leaving good lacing. Carbonation is large sized bubbles. Aroma is sweet, malty. Flavour is strong roasted malt, hint of coffee.

Heavy bitterness that didn’t seem to be ’countered’ by anything else. The sourness came through for me too. Not a bad beer but just not right for me to want more

Pours mahogany with a nice huge and chunky tan head that has good retention and leaves some really nice lacing. Aroma is sweet malt, earthy hops, some spices, wet grass and a little stale coffee. Flavor is roast, coffee, a little apple, earth, spices, lots of burnt sugar, caramel, an almost milk like sweetness. FInish is dry and earthy with some roast, a little bitterness.

Bottle. This beer is red/brown with a one inch head, malt aromas, spices. There is some lacing on the glass. I taste a dark roast with some molasses and distant licorice. There is also the slightest hint of chocolate. It starts a bit sweet but moves quickly to a dry and slightly bitter finish.

500ml bottle from the LCBO Pours a reddish brown with a small tan head good lacing all the way down The aroma is malty and herbal quite nice the taste is a bit thin with good slightly bitter malts

The beer pours a brick red/brown colour with a thin slightly off white head. The aroma is pretty thin, mostly malts, some metallic notes. The flavour is decent, medium bitter bite, with a malt base of light caramel. All and all a highly drinkable beer, with some a fair amount of flavour, but pretty uninteresting to be anything special.

Aroma is kind of roasty. Color dark and cloudy. Nice frothy head. Taste is heavy bitterness, medium sour. Full body with thick texture. Long finish

Nice aroma of flowers and grass. A summery beer in flavour with fresh cut grass being dominant. It also has a long malty finish.