Black Sheep Yorkshire Square Ale

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

More body than an average pale ale this is pleasantly malty with gentle citrus flavours making for a an allround well balanced beer.

Everything was above average in this ale: beutiful deep golden/amber color, wonderful foamy head, aroma of herbs, lemons and chewy malts. Fantastic yeasty, citric, malty and hoppy flavors. Its complexity and elegance was truly amazing.

Nice! Though the Black Sheep Brewery has disappointed me regularly, this beer possesses a citrusy sourness and maltiness that elevates it above the pack. You could make a good square meal out of this.

Malty aroma with hints of banana. Copper hue with a decent white foamy head. Malty initial taste with very pleasant herbal hoppy after taste, smashing.

sweet malty nose, amber hue, moderate head, sweet malty taste, hints of raisins

Nice raisin fruit, but the bargain basement syrupy malt body is off putting. An OK bitter, but lacks life in the bottle. Good hop finish. Some good points and some bad points. Fairly average. Another thought: The traditional Yorkshire yeast is a lazy bugger, leaving lots of syrup in the brew. The Yorkshire Squares system of reactivating the yeast is designed to reduce the syrup quality but keep a firm mouthfeel and body. Sam Smith do it with ease, but Paul Theakston seems yet to have mastered the technique.

Lovely malty ale with a typical English beer head. Palatable and flavoursome.

I agree with the lemony hop aroma, like mutant says, has a resiny, citrusy bittersweet flavour,malty, quite bitter and almost quite acidic finish aswell, actually quite complex and interesting, and even though i had it from the bottle, i reckon it almost had a kind of cask character to it.