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Dark, chestnut born pour with a beer than expected, mocha colored rocky head. Settles to a thin but persistent film on the surface of the beer. Minimal lace. Nose offers all the richness one would expect. Caramel based toffee, with plenty of brown...
Pour is a mid to dark brown, thinnish looking beer. The head is initially better than expected, but drops away to give almost no head apart from a thin film. Nose offers some light caramel notes and some fairly feint alcohol. Given the 10.3% ABV, I...
A bizarro 'beer' .At least it used to be beer! Corked, 275 mL bottle. Corked breaks on opening and therefore requires a delicate operation to get it out of the bottle. Pour is a still as a millpond, and a mid-orange, tea-like, copper color. Zero...
Opened on the occasion of Her Majesty The Queen's, Diamond Jubilee. God Bless you Ma'am. Brewed in 1997 as part of the celebration surrounding Gale's 150th Anniversary and their first royal visit, the beer was distributed for the year 2000. I...
Additional notes 08/18/23 2022 Vintage, still a 12oz bottle. Another beer that I never thought I would ever see again, but here we are thanks to the internet (Tavour). 2022 vintage still coming in at 13.5%. No head to speak of which is expected,...
Bought this several months ago, at Hop City, Atlanta, GA and paid the slightly absurd price of approx. $20! The bottle is pretty extravagant, even by ridiculous Rogue standards. My guess is that the price is why there are only 15 reviews before...
12 oz single from the Longshot pack. A nice looking pour that gives a simple, brown, clear beer with some pretty good carbonation considering the ABV. Head and lace are both adequate and better than I anticipated. This beer is nowhere near as...
This is NOT an Old Ale in my book. I was actually expecting it to be labeled as a Winter Warmer, but it drinks more like an American IPA. On tap at The Irish Bred Pub in Douglasville, GA, USA. Great looking pour with the deep copper, mahogany body...
Pleased to see this beer make it to Hop City, Atlanta, GA. 22 oz bomber. Obviously I was thinking that this would be an Imperial Brown Ale, but apparently it is categorized as an Old Ale here. Pour is a murky brow, Dubbel like color. Not especially...
Impressive presentation, but also an impressive price (between $13 and $16), but when you consider the beer is being sold as a vehicle to make money for what they consider a good cause, it makes it slightly more palatable. Slightly. Hand numbered...
A very, very interesting beer to say the least, but in the final analysis a bit too much all the way around. Nicely presented, black waxed 750 mL bottle. Seemed to be double-dipped on the wax which made it a pain to get into. Capped underneath....
New entrant to the USA picked up for $3.99 at Hop City, Atlanta, GA, USA. 500 mL bottle. Pour has a nice, rich brown, tawny body and some excellent head, retention and lace. As expected nose and tastes reflect lots of sweet malts although they come...
Thanks go out to pghlee for saving a growler of this from the recent cask at The Brick Store. He saved this for some of the stragglers that couldn't make it on the previous day for the cask tapping. Jet black, still pour with no sign of life in...
12 oz single in the typical Founders stubbie bottle. 2008 vintage. A bit of a disappointing pour. I say that for a couple of reasons. Firstly the color is a wee bit dull. Opaque orange amber body and very little head and lace. Secondly although the...
12 oz single from Total Wine, Kennesaw, GA, USA. Old Ale? Not by any stretch of the imagination! Decent dark brown pour with some orange highlights at the edges. A pretty nice head straight out of the bottle, but retention and lace (although there)...
Motor oil pour as usual with no lace, but a nice ring and thin film of mocha head sitting on the surface. Nose is big on the whisky aroma and it is light and tempting - very easy. Obviously a malty monster with plenty of mild roastiness. This is my...
I got lucky here - long after Dave had taken this off at The Brick Store he handed me a couple of glasses and took me back into the cellar. There we picked up the "empty" cask and poured the last couple of pints from it by tipping it up and...
$8.49 from Arbor Place Beverage, Douglasville, GA, USA. 12oz bottle. Almost black out with some brown highlights. Some spotty lace but no head to speak of. A little alcohol in the nose and some hints of whisky, but it's not big. Nice aroma, it...
Notes taken from England trip, July 2007 - thanks Chris! Sometimes appears as 300 Year Old Ale, sometimes as Battle of Britain Ale. NIce, mid-dark brown pour with a creamy head and nice lace. Good caramel notes with some light nut. Mouthfeel is...
500 mL bottle, $4.95 Green's, Buford, Atlanta, GA, USA. Bottle is different to the style shown in the BA database - no foil. Surprised at the light, butterscotch color of the pour with some serious murkiness - also highly carbonated. Aroma starts...
12oz bottle as part of the mixed LONGSHOT sixer, $6.49 @ Cheers, Carrollton, GA, USA. The LONGSHOT six-pack just made it to GA in the last few days. Notched label suggests Best Before June 2007. If I had to blind taste this I would have described...
06/01/17 Pictured 2005 Vintage Ale in Jan 2013 No: 43653 Additional notes 01/10 ('05 Vintage) 2005 Vintage, over four years old. Bottle #47750. The aroma that is produced as soon as the bottle is opened is very intense. Quite a lot of sweet alcohol...
$4.95 Green's on Ponce, Atlanta, GA, USA. Pretty dark pour with real ruby highlights. Dark wood seems to be present in terms of color, aroma and taste. Nice tan head but not much lacing, however there remains a spotty presence on the surface of the...
For some important context, see Roger's notes on Thomas Hardy's Ale. 8.5 fl oz. bottle, 2004 vintage, serial No. P 58218, Green's, Ponce de Leon, Atlanta, GA, USA. $5.95. Label says 11.7 % ABV. It's probably close to eight years ago that I last...
Old Ale? Nah, it's a Porter for all intents and purposes. Black pour with an initial large tan head but this fades fast to leave a tiny bit of lacing and some minimal spotty head on the surface. Nice, rich chocolate alcohol nose. Decent mouthfeel...
Batch 60. Pours very dark brown, almost black with a large head. Lacing is thick, sticky and copious. Aroma is promising at first, but then a sharp cider smell wafts in and significantly subtracts from the aroma experience. The taste masks the...
Firstly I'm unconvinced that this is an Old Ale. If you read the label carefully, and consult the brewery web site, it classifies it as an "Olde English Ale" which is significantly different to an Old Ale. This is really an ESB or a Winter Warmer....
2002 Vintage. Beautiful, deep, alcoholic, fruity Port based aroma that promises a great deal. The appearance and the taste slightly fail to reach those expectations, but because the smell is so spectacular that wasn't really that suprising or that...
Wow! Pour is a slightly lighter brown body than I was expecting with a nice head and some lacing. The lack of lacing may have been due to the temperature that this was presented (too cold), so I am happy to give it the benefit of the doubt. As it...
1998 Vintage. Smell is truly magnificent. Mainly deep, fruity alcohol that is reminiscent of port or sherry. Pour is deep brown, but with some very substantial red highlights. I'd like to see a bigger head on the beer, but the style, the age and...
Delicious. A fantastic combination of malt, dark fruits and alcohol with a little chocolate thrown in on the top. There's a lot of richness about this beer which actually reminds me a lot of the Celebrator Doppelbock. Black, thick pour with very...
Still solid after all these years, but the bottled version that I drank in 2004 in the USA didn't resemble what I remember drinking on tap several years ago in England. These are obviously slightly different products, but the gap between them seems...
2006 Vintage, Showcase Beverage, Carrollton, GA, USA, a great price at $8.99 a four pack. This is listed at 13.25% ABV, bigger than previous vintages so I am a bit confused as to why this is not listed as a different beer in the database (surely...