Woodfordes Norfolk Nog

Brewed by Woodfordes
Style: Old Ale
Broadland Brewery
Woodbastwick, England

A red-brown beer with a huge brown head. The aroma is sweet roasted with some acidic notes as well as yeast and hinst of chocolate. The flavor is sweet with lots of yeast notes as well as some notes of roasted bread and acidity. The end is dry and slightly acidic.

(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a clear reddish brown with no head. Delicious vinous aroma of dried fruit and overripe fruit. Medium body, lightly tart dried fruits and roasted malt. Interesting if not exactly grand. 031008

Sampled cask conditioned at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mahogany colour. Interesting aroma with restrained fruitiness and hints of flowers and caramel. Some roastiness and a delicious fragile saoft maltiness. Low to medium bitterness. Excellently balalnced and very quenchable.

50 cL bottle, courtesy of fonefan. Pours dark brown with an orange glare and clear. Fully gone head. Mild chocolate and slight roasted malty. Pleasant aroma. Flavour is mild acidic and floral to spiced yet with a nice underlying malty and chocolate like base. Ends mild spiced and slight bitter.7-3-7-3-13=3.3 From cask at Edward Wylie. Pours dark brown with a minimal amber glare and a dense tan head. Roasted malty aroma with a mild caramel to chocolate note. Light bitterness arising out of a light acidic roasted malty flavour with a mild caramel sweetness. Holds a touch of liqourice too. Light roasted and malty finish. Smooth.6-3-7-3-13=3.2

<b>Cask @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.</b>
Clear medium amber brown color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (070808) 6-2-6-3-13
<b>Bottle 50cl.</b>
Clear medium to dark brown color with vitually none head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, caramel, chocolate, nutty. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20081003] 7-2-6-2-14

Bottle, 4.6%. Roasted aroma. Clear dark brown colour. Sour flavour, sour liquorice, quite roasted.

Cask@GBBF2008. Deep ruby red colour, not much head. Aroma is mild coffee, some dark berries and fruits along with mild sweetish wooden notes. Also some mild notes of raisins. Flavour is malts, raisins, sweetness and some mild coffee. Really pleasant and wellbalanced. Aftertaste is dark fruits and wood.

Bottled. Red brown coloured with a beige head. Fruity aroma of peaches with malty notes. Fruity flavour of malts and bread.