Gales Millennium Brew

Formerly brewed at Gales
Style: English Strong Ale
Horndean, England

9.3 oz bottle, snifter. Caramel, light chocolate, bread, cereal malt (M); flowery, perfume, citrus hops (L); doughy yeast (L); light alcohol, white grape, raisin, pine apple, pinot grigio, cola and honey aromas. Deep, hazy, caramel colored body. No head. Moderately sweet, lightly acidic (sour) flavor becomes a lightly sweet, moderately acidic (sour), tannic finish. Medium body, watery/oily texture, flat carbonation, slight alcohol warmth. The bottom line is: very vinous and tannic...too much so for my personal preference. Most like a watered down lambic or flemish sour.

Man,talk about a blase’ looking beer.This looks like apple cider that has been watered down.Hazy brown ish,big on the isshh.Has that nasty plum wine smell sweet and sickening.This beer is just plain shitty.Sour acrid nastiness.

George Gale did me wrong...again. I shook this up hoping for some excitement before I removed the cork...nothing. Looked like brewed iced tea, flat and no head. Smelled sour. Tasted sweet and very sour. There is nothing anyone can do to make me finish this. Had a bitterness I would liken to chokecherries. That’s the best I can do, this was very very bad.

Taking the cork out of this bottle unleashed a wild wood aged aroma, very wine like, with tons of sweetness of chocolate and caramel and with a slight alcohol nose. This brew has some fruity tastes to it giving the taste lots of different sides to it. Taste has a bit of sourness and was not nearly as malty as i was expecting. Also the mouthfeel left much to be desired for, very thin. If only this brew could have lived up to the initial aroma i could have rated it higher.

Dark muddy brown like lake water. The aroma was over powering I could smell it 5 feet away. With a closer wiff it smelled like real strong champagne that actually made my tongue curl. Tastes sour with very little taste maybe dried fruit. Maybe this was good in 2000, but certainly not in 2004. Very flat and brutal. I hate wine, I hate champagne, I HATE this! AWEFUL beer! I did however try and give this to a homeless person after I realized I wasn’t going to finish it. The man’s eye light up with joy as I handed him the bottle. He took one swig and threw the bottle at me and began cursing me for my cruel joke.

Is it me or can you not get a good bottle of this stuff. Every Gale product I’ve tried seems to be sour, under carbonated and almost drainpour. This was no exception. Cloudy color with dried fruity aroma. Taste is tart and acidic. No head.

Bottle. When poured, this beer formed a small sized tan head with fine-small sized bubbles that quickly dissipated. The body was hazy, carbonated with a somewhat copper hue. The nose was sweet, spicy and definitely alcohol. The flavor was caramel and alcohol tasting. The mouthfeel was tingly and this was a medium bodied beer with sparse lacing.

This bottled and corked brew poured a medium sized mostly diminishing head of finely sized off-white colored bubbles that left behind a good lacing. The body is a hazy semi-transparent brown color with no visible carbonation. The aroma could be smelled from a foot away. It was very vinuous, port like and very much like a strong ale. The mouth feel is initially smooth then kicks in with a stong vinuous componet that leads to a more mildly vinuous mild brown beer aftertaste mixed with a little caramel. The flavor is pretty well hidden by the vinuous aspects of the mouth feel but once you get past the strong ale aspects, there is caramel malt and mild cinnamon.