Sarah Hughes Snowflake

A Mes rate. Gravicask at Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. Darkish golden brown with no head. Burnt candy sugar, plenty of rich malt, slight creamy alcohol and plenty of berry fruits. Very slight plastic notes but it’s no spoiler. Rich and warming malt and alcohol finish. Good length. A solid barley wine.

On gravity at the Old Tavern, Bristol 23/2/08. Amber coloured with no head. Sweet malt and grassy hop aroma. Flavour was cloyingly sweet with a chewy mouth feel and honey finish. Ok in small amounts.

Cask@Out of the Vaults, Leicester. Amber beer with a malty and hopped aroma. The flavour is vinous and malty. Overall a reasonable vinous and sweet beer

Cask, Out of the Vaults, Leicester. Golden brown with a small foam. Aromas are toffee and pear with some spices. Quite sweet with evident alcohol. Flavours are sweet toffee and caramelised pear with brown sugar. Alcohol on the finish. Quite thick on the palate. Reasonable.

dark amber in colour,with a sweet full rounded strong ale with hints of heney and syrup.

Gravity, Dover BF. Copper. No head by the time I got to sampling. Warm, nutty aroma that carries over pretty directing to the flavor. Alcohol is mild and not at all overbearing, but also not much in flavor complexity or intensity for the abv. Pleasant, but kind of subdued.

Feb, 2007 Dover Beer Fest 2007. Clean, sweet strong pale ale which manages to hold together well. Nutty and delicious. Mmmm. Buttery smooth and peanutty. [3.5]
Feb 2009 Dover Beer Fest. I found this rather sugary sweet at the festival and scored it 3.5 I bottled some and brought it home where I find it soft and smooth with a hint of alcohol warmth on the swallow. There is some cereal sweetness, but not over-bearing or unpleasant. Nice. [3.5]

Cask gravity at White Cliffs BF 2007. Copper/orange colour with bubbly off white head. Rather nice vanilla flavour. Big and syrupy beer. Nice heat on end. I really like it. Good malty aroma, nice vanilla/peach flavour. Some hop on finish.