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Oakham Bishops Farewell 3.49 90

Oakham Bishops Farewell

Percentile
87
overall
Brewed by Oakham
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale

Peterborough, England

bottling
unknown

on tap
available

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
903.55/5.03.49/5.04.6%99.5English pint, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Cask & Bottle filtered; Regular.
Originally a one off special for the Peterborough Beer Festival, Bishops Farewell has become a permenant fixture in the Oakham family. Pale, hoppy & packed with flavour.
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 harrisoni (6946), Ashford, Kent, England
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/105/518/20
Jun 30, 2005    Updated: Aug 13, 2007
Cask at Oakham Brewery Tap, Peterborough. One of my favourite all time beers. It is like the JHB with all of the citric hoppiness and tangerine/grapefruit, but there is more body and structure to this beer that makes this stunning. A really good beer


 pivo (2537), Germany
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/517/20
Aug 25, 2003  
ON TAP GBBF 2003: This brewery rocks. Get any beer you can from them and enjoy it. Bright hop nose here as expected. Clear pale gold color and and scumming head that sticks to the glass. Friendly and warm malt body upfront gets overwhelmed by a mountain of hops within a milleseconds. Reminds me of Anchor Liberty. Wow - this is from Britain? Like a dry martini - I love this kinda beer.


 DanielBrown (1919), Birmingham (via Leicester), West Midlands, England
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/518/20
Mar 4, 2004    Updated: May 17, 2006
Handpump at the Bartons Arms, Aston, Birmingham. Excellent beer. Bright yellow, with a mucky bit of froth on top. Floral aroma - soft and summery. Deliciously clean, and, as someone said below, slightly oily. Full of freshness and floral tang - this is full and clean, and crisply rich. [3.9]. RE-RATE -drank this in the Actress and Bishop on Saturday. Having sampled it more often than almost any other beer, I realised what a travesty that I’d rated this so low. It is superbly consistent and just plain superb, for all the reasons noted in my first rate. Amazing. (17/5/06)


robbieej (1), oswestry, England
does not count click to see why this rating of Oakham Bishops Farewell does not count
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Nov 14, 2003  
Lovingly cared for by Jim Heaton at the Last Inn, refreshing clean with a hint of grapefruit, wonderful!!


pughy1957 (61), Rugby, England
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Jun 23, 2007  
A magnificent pale ale. I have no idea what the last reviewer was drinking but it certainly wasn’t Bishops Farewell. This ale is wonderfully aromatic using a huge dose of Mount Hood and Challenger for bittering. The taste is citrus and the finish is sharp and very refreshing.


 oh6gdx (9104), Vasa, Finland
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Aug 31, 2007  
Cask@GBBF2007. Pale golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is nectar, wood and some sweet malts. Flavour is malts, hops and grass. Also slightly creamy notes. Nicely balanced brew.


 JonMoore (1562), Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/517/20
Sep 17, 2006  
Cask handpump at the Swan in the Rushes, Loughborough. Crystal clear golden colour with a slim white head. Aroma of citrus hops. Great hoppy taste, citrusy again, nice, firm balancing malts. Dry, with a hoppy bitter finish. Addictive.


 Mungo (2473), Southampton, Hampshire, England
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/59/104/518/20
May 17, 2006  
Cask conditioned @ Standing Order(JDW), Soton. Excellent citric hops with unobtrusive malts. Dry with lots of hop flavour and bitterness leaving the teeth feeling squeaky clean with a lip-smacking tangyness.



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