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Showing posts with label by the horns. Show all posts

By The Horns Gift Of The Gab

Bottle conditioned with very lively carbonation
By The Horns Gift Of The Gab [baron rating 3/5] - 5.9% black ale,mocha smell,warming choc coffee beans taste,cloying creamy sweet finish
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Looking forward to baron rating Ales By Mail ales

Some more ales from the wonderful people at Ales By Mail arrived last week, a right mixed bag of stuff, here is the selection:


  • By The Horns Gift Of The Gab - 5.9% Irish coffee milk stout. Smooth roast coffee with a touch of rich oat & peat. A milk stout brewed with Lactose, then aged on Oak and conditioned with freshly ground coffee
  • Celt Experience Silures - 4.6% infused session IPA. Powerfully hopped and adjusted with sweet Munich malt, Spruce tips and a depth of tropical fruit aroma dry hops
  • Freedom Pilsner - 5% pilsner lager. Light straw colour, very light hop aroma and a bitter, light taste with a dry aftertaste
  • Ilkley Joshua Jane -3.7% Yorkshire bitter. Rich nut-brown Yorkshire ale. Light caramel sweetness, modest salt and a keen lasting bitterness
  • Lluna De Blat - 4.8% ale. Aroma is fruity with floral notes, body is friendly and slightly acidic flavor and refreshing (taken from their website)
  • Pitfield Sea Shepherd Ocean Warrior - 4.5% straw coloured beer, with a light malt flavour, and a refreshing citrus finish
  • Tryis Vipa - 6.1% beer, the entire label was in Spanish, sorry!
  • Wild Beer Modus Operandi -7% beer. Old ale + Oak-aged for 90 days + wild yeast 2014
Look out for 'baron ratings' of these beers soon, and a big thank you to Paul Kruzycki from Ales By Mail for sending these through to me!

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By The Horns Flapper

Not bottle conditioned
By The Horns Flapper [baron rating 3/5] - 9% copper ale,caramel smell,harsh grapefruit bitter taste,big herbal bitter finish
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By The Horns Vintage 2014

Bottle conditioned with no carbonation
By The Horns Vintage 2014 [baron rating 1/5] - 11.5% dark brown ale,boozy choc plummy smell,sour vinous taste,fading vinous finish
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By The Horns 2Tone

Not bottle conditioned
By The Horns 2Tone [baron rating 5/5] - 4.5% hazy pale gold lager,fresh cut hay smell,crisp soft lemon bitter taste,dry lemon finish
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Looking forward to baron rating Beavertown & By The Horns ales


Some more lovely beers arrived this week from Ales By Mail, I'm not sponsored by them but sometimes I wonder if I should be! This is what was in the box this time:

two cans are better than one bottle? NEVER!
Beavertown Brewery
  • Bloody 'Ell - 7.2% blood orange IPA
By The Horns Brewery
  • 2 Tone - 4.5% London lager, unfiltered, unpasteurised & dry-hopped for maximum flavour
  • Flapper - 9% double IPA, punchy, extreme & raucous IPA. Hopped with Admiral, Cascade, Summit & Simcoe
  • Vintage 2014 - 11.5% barley wine, aged on Oak. This full bodied beast has been aged for 5 months in 3 different types of whisky barrels, then blended, bottle conditioned and then aged in bottle for further 5 months. Expect notes of raisiny sweet malt and a subtle spicy smooth finish
Look out for 'baron ratings' of these beers soon, and a big thank you to Paul Kruzycki from Ales By Mail for sending these through to me!

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By The Horns Bobby On The Wheat

Not bottle conditioned
By The Horns Bobby On The Wheat [baron rating 2/5] - 4.7% gold ale,vanilla solventy smell,sweetish creamy floral taste,floral nutmeg? finish
Thank you to  Paul Kruzycki from Ales By Mail for sending this through for a baron rating!

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Looking forward to baron rating Ales By Mail's Best of London mixed case



London seems to have had an explosion of new breweries, in 2006 there were eight breweries, now there are thirty six and counting! Ales By Mail have pulled together a selection of beers from some of these breweries in their rather suitably named "Best of London Mixed Case". Fifteen bottles of quality ale from some of London's newest breweries.

Here are the case contents:

  • Beavertown Black Betty - 7.2% black IPA
  • BrĂ¼pond Ain'cho Mum's Porter - 4.2% chocolate & chilli porter
  • By the Horns Bobby on the Wheat - 4.7% pale wheat, a well balanced body of flavours cut with notions of citrus and a development of spice
  • Camden Town Pale Ale - 4% pale ale
  • Crate Lager - 4.8% rich golden lager with a flora aroma, and a crisp clean refreshing finish
  • East London Nightwatchman - 4.5% dark premium bitter, well-hopped but with a smooth mouthfeel. A complex balance of malts gives a well-rounded flavour
  • Hackney Golden Ale - 4% golden ale
  • Kernel London Brewers Alliance Collaboration London Stout - 6.8%
  • Little Brew Porter - 5.4% porter, delicious & deep with malty chocolate tones
  • London Fields Unfiltered Lager - 4.3% lager, unfiltered to retain all the smooth texture and crisp, delicate notes of citrus and fern. An ultimately refreshing beer - with flavour!
  • Moncada Notting Hill Ruby Rye - 5.2% robust ruby ale made with rye complimented by a fruity hop aroma
  • Partizan IPA:Columbus Cascade Bravo - 7.4% IPA
  • Rocky Head Pale Ale - 6.5% pale ale
  • Tap East Coffee in the Morning - 5.2% full-bodied coffee stout made with freshly ground El Salvadorian coffee beans
  • Windsor & Eton Conqueror 1075 [baron rating 5/5] - 7.4% rich & complex black IPA
Look out for 'baron ratings' of these beers soon, and a big thank you to Paul Kruzycki from Ales By Mail for sending these through to me!

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