Cotswold Winter

Brewed by Cotswold
Style: Dunkel
Foscot, England

330ml bottle from Hampers Food & Wine, Woodstock] Pours deep amber with a slightly dirty looking foamy off-white head. Moderate carbonation, but not too intrusive by lager standards. Smells of dusty chocolate. Initial flavour of chocolate develops through autumn leaves into bitterness with slight metallics. Quite a short finish. Overall an OK beer, but not one I’d especially return to.

Bottled courtesy of Rick at The Woolpack. Brown with white head. Quite a treacley lager with a background of caramel, something quite odd about it. Pasteurising bitterness, lacking something that pulls it together.

Keg at The Jam Factory, Oxford. Cocoa aroma. A little dirty. OK, but the dark malts don’t sit well in the limp body and indifferent arena.

Russet brown, cap of fairly coarse white. Cranberry and rose aroma with a nice dark bread undercurrent. Wholesome dark bread flavor, a subtle tartness, lingering toasty/mineral finish. Light clean palate. Well crafted, interesting--just a nice beer. Richard’s lagers keep impressing. Looking forward to what’s next!