Gales Jubilee Ale

Bottled@Pikkulintu
Deep red-ruby color, no head. Strawberry, cut grass, smokey wood, fruit sugar in the nose - what a mix. Liquerish palate. Sweet berries, strong wine (Finnish Gambina), some sourness, lots of Madeira wine and Moscatel. Excellent dessert wine ... err .. beer I mean. Aged very well, doesn’t feel like 12% anymore.

Amber of color with no head. An aroma of raisins and port - oxydised. A flavor that is oxydised with raisins and oily.

Bottle. Pours a hazy light brown. No head. Aroma is oxydised, malty and with milky notes. Same flavour, but also a bit sour. This hasn’t aged well. Yuck. 26-09-09.

Bottle. Rocky white fair mostly deminishing head. Red amber colour. Moderate malty andhoppy oxidated aroma. Light sweetband moderate bitter flavor. Strong oxidated niotes. Average moderate bitter finish. Creamy almost syruply palate.

(Bottle at Pikkulintu, Helsinki, on 2009-09-24) Deep red colour and llightly hazy. No head. Malts, tiny sweetness and tawny port wine in aroma. Dry palate with very low carbonation. Vinousness, malts, lightly roastedness, raisin and light bitterness in taste. Malty and vineous aftertaste.

9.3 oz. bottle. Completely uncarbonated. Sweet, wine-like, sharp, sour smell features grape, raisin, vinegar, plum, and apple cider scents. Pours a clear, bright copper with no head. Looks like tea, not beer. I was tempted to give it a 1 for appearance, but I’ll be generous. Bitter, slightly sour, salty taste features chocolate and mud/rocks/minerals flavors. Strange, dirty, offputting aftertaste. Completely flat. Medium body. Close to a drain pour. I’m sure this is not how it’s supposed to taste. I used the second half of the bottle for cooking.

well.. To be honest I am scared to drink this one. It does look very weird in the class and with the research I have done this beer is 7 years old.... Smells musty and high in alcohol, some earth tones and wood. Pours a very hazy and cloudy and chunky pale brown with no head at all. Has a funny light body with no carbonation. Taste like MRs. Dash seasoning salt. this is like a a ranch dip packet. I find this hard to believe that this was beer at one time.. WOW.... .it might be drain poor.. "

Bottled@Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Ruby colour, not much head. Aroma is raisins, hops, caramel malts, alcohol and excellent balance. Flavour is raisins, very sweet alcohol, smooth stuff and dark dry fruits. Marvellous balance. WOW