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Burton Bridge Empire Ale 3.51 299

Burton Bridge Empire Ale

Percentile
88
overall
Brewed by Burton Bridge
Style: English Strong Ale

Burton-on-Trent, England

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
2993.53/5.03.51/5.07.5%91.8English pint, Trappist glass
Commercial Description:
Bottle Conditioned. Has appeared in cask as a special.
Light in color, strong and heavily hopped.
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 jfm (1695), Holbćk, Denmark
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/53/101/57/20
Mar 13, 2005  
Deep golden color with a white head. The taste is sweet and fruity but slight thin. Finishes light dry and bitter.


 Garrat (1132), Suffolk, England
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Mar 12, 2005  
From A Bottle.Light brown in colour,small head all the way,aroma is sweet and of old oranges, taste is of hops and herbs almost medical with the alcohol,it reminded me of going to the doctors as a child. Another strange Burton experience.


 muzzlehatch (4427), Burlington, Vermont, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/517/20
Feb 16, 2005  
500 ml bottle. Cloudy/opaque apricot with distinct swirls of yeast, medium head...hugely orangey nose (both bitter peel and sweet juice), yeasty barnyardy qualities and wafts of caramel, vanilla and oregano, wonderfully complex, even thrilling...very bitter front in the flavor, citrusy spicy and woody, juicy at first changing to dry, acidic and dusty at the finish, very full-bodied but quite quaffable with dried pine-needle quality that lasts endlessly after you sadly drain the glass...marvellous.


 Styles (1653), Lincoln Park, Michigan, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/515/20
Feb 1, 2005  
Golden/copper color with a big fluffy head. Bubblegum nose with a little hops detectable. Flavor is almost all hops and just a little malt/strange yeast flavor to it. Well done but thought it was more like a cross between a Belgian/IPA.


 11026 (1779), Alabama, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/516/20
Jan 27, 2005  
Bottle. Served probably a little warmer than desired. Hazy yellow/amber colored. Nice fluffy white head. Bubble gum and floral hop aroma. Very well balanced. Truly the hoppiest beer I have had from England. More like an IPA than an English Strong.


 Terminus (1955), Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Jan 10, 2005  
bottle-thanks to Erway for bringing "the hoppiest beer from england". pours a cloudy orange hue with a huge off-white head. vanilla, citric aroma that was slightly acidic. sweet, piney, citric tones with lots of yeast qualities and lemony zest. palate is a bit fizzy. not bad, but its cool to sample this beer. im shure on cask, this stuff rocks!


 Cornfield (4963), Oak Forest, Illinois, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Jan 7, 2005  
(Rating #700!) Now this is a brew worth getting shipped to India for! (Michael Jackson, Burton Bridge, & others refer to it as an IPA.) From the bottle, this poured a hazy tangerine color with a frothy off-white head that decorated my moustach the entire drink. This has some excellent orange peel and lemon hop aromas to it that come through strongly in the taste as well. There’s a serious caramel malt flavor giving this a solid backbone for its spiciness. Very creamy mouthfeel, very satisfying taste, all capped off with a refreshing hop bitterness and alcohol in the finish.


 MaiBockAddict (1499), Good Beer Bar Deprived, New Jersey, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/57/104/513/20
Jan 2, 2005  
Bottle at the Ship. Cloudy light orange, with no head to speak of. Thought that I had an off bottle at first, getting Belgian notes from this one. Styrian Golding hops in the aroma? Hoppy malty flavor that is a little Belgian Saison-like. If this had been labled Fantome, I may have scored it higher.



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