Gales Millennium Brew

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

(Bottle 27,5 cl) Courtesy of kramer17801. Slightly hazy, amber golden with a small, off-white head. Intense aroma of overripe fruit and sherry. Medium body with absolutely no carbonation. Fruity, oxidized sherry flavours with a vague, underlying tartness. The hops are almost missing in the finish. Quite complex and interesting. 120108

Bottled - sampled January 2008. A hazy amber beer with a thin lazing beige head. The aroma is metalic and oxidixed combined with a slightly acidic bret note - I don’t think it is unpurpose, but it’s not bad. The flavor is sweet and oxydixed in a nice way and again with a note of bret.

[1997 vintage - bottle @ Papsoe] Amber with tiny head. Viniuos aroma with port and bourbon notes. Vinous complex flavor with dominant alcohol note, prunes and bourbon.

Millennium Brew Ale brewed for the year 2000. 10% George Gale. Vintage 1998 Bottle. [Great two day tasting session @ Papsoe] Small bubbly white head that mostly diminished. Clear amber color. Spare lacework. Quit malty and alcoholic full sniff. The alcohol could really be felt in the nose with other notes of bread, citrus, fruit. Over the palate sour notes that overpower all other notes. Medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Moderated sour flavor with light sweet notes. Sour finish.

27.5 cL bottle. Pours slight hazy orange with fully diminished white head. Dark and dry raisin like aroma. Flavour is acidic lending itself into a slight citric note. Oldish dark fruity malt. Dark flavours. Ends with a dry almost woody note and a dry raisin note. Great aroma, strange flavour and palate, typical Gales which I find it hard to adjust to.

Purchased at Knightly Spirits in Orlando. Pours a clear copper with zero head. The aroma starts with olive and red wine notes. Beyond that are wood, dark fruit and sweet caramel malts. The taste starts even and smooth then rolls into grapes and red wine. It then becomes tannin red wine like tartness entering midway then woodiness joins in along with dates, plums, raisins, sweet caramelized malts and more grapes. The body is a bit thin. Aside from the lack of carbonation this beer seems to have aged nicely.

a 10 year old brew that is hugely dissappointing. it has zero carbonation. way past its prime, if it ever had one.

Pours a copper color with a small off-white head. Aroma is sour with oak, dark fruit, caramel malts, and molasses. Flavor is past it’s prime with no carbonation hints of dark fruits that have made it sour. Not much of the alcohol warming left. Probably was much better soon after it was brewed.