Freeminer Grim Reaper

Brewed by Freeminer
Style: Bitter
Cinderford, England

Fairly average beer in all aspects. Aroma and taste are quite citrus with a slght caramel sweet taste.

Bottle at The Penguin Beer-Bobbing/13 Beers of Halloween tasting. Dusky amber with a fine white lid. Hay, apple, slight puke and Werthers aroma. Dryish with pine, balancing caramel, Belgian yeasty hints, honey on toast. Decent Germanic figgy malts. Tasty and understated.

Small white head. Hazy brown body. Meaty herbal fruity aroma. Dry-sweetish fruity herbal wooden taste with caramelly papery notes. Mid-bodied. Clean palate. Dry metallic fruity herbal aftertaste. Nice, drinkable, anonymous. (0.5l bottle, Ultra, Ski.)

Bottle. Dark golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit. Flavour is malt, apple, fruit, caramel. Ordinary beer.

Bottle. A slightly hazy golden beer with a medium sized off-white head. Mellow citrusy nose with malt and caramel blending in. Fruity start on the flavor, mostly citrus, but also a touch of tropical fruits and canned fruits. Low on malty flavors. Some caramel and roasted notes though. Quite thin on the body, but not watery. Citrusy finish with some hoppy bitterness.Malty sweetness in the very end. A refreshing and easy drinkable beer, typical all-nighter, but far from standing out in the crowd. And the name is a bit bragging, more suited for an imperial stout than for a session-style bitter. Rating: 5-4-5-3-11-2.8. (080720)

Bottle. It pours a clear, dark golden body, topped by a finger-thick off-white head leaving some lacings. Caramel maltyness and a gentle fruity hoppyness in the aroma. Citrus and tropical fruits too. There seems to be a touch of butterscotch too. Mostly fruity in the mouth, with orange, pears and some plum. Malty sweet in the back. Some bitterness lingering. Medium, smooth mouthfeel. Low on co2, like a casked beer that was opened yesterday. The beer slides down easily and sure doesn’t taste bad, but it somehow resembles a limonade or soda drink. (081108)

500 ml bottle. Hazy, dark orange body with a small, fast disappearing off-white head. Vague aroma with a hint of caramel. Flavor is malty, with some fruit and caramel. Some hops in finish, but a bit to light is my overall impression.

0,5 l bottle. Hazy amber color, nice off-white head. Aroma is hops and malt. Flavor is fruity and malty with nice hops. Much taste in a low alcohol-beer.

Aroma: moderate esters of rose, dandelion and aniseed hop character, earthy, nutty and slightly musty. slight sweet malt, moderate caramel, slight toastiness.
Appearance: Hazy, murky, wispy off white head.
Flavour: earthy, dandelion hop flavour that is subdued, tired malt that doesn’t have the crisp nuttiness of good bitter, slight autolysis, caramel is too dominant. lingering after-taste.
Palate: short, thin, lingering musty hop flavour and not the rounded bitterness to carry this beer. slight sourness in the end.
Overall: Tired bitter that has spent it’s best days in an unrefrigerated container going around the earth. Not infected but a really poor example of a bitter in a tired condition. worst beer I have had in a long time.