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| Not can conditioned |
RedWillow Shameless can [baron rating /5] - 5.9% copper ale, mango green hop smell,sweet fruity piney bitter taste,big piney bitter finish
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RedWillow Wreckless can
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| Not can conditioned |
RedWillow Wreckless can [baron rating /5] - 4.8% gold ale,fresh hop smell,balanced pineapple spict taste,fresh fruity slight spicy finish
RedWillow Smokeless
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| Bottle conditioned with perfect carbonation |
RedWillow Smokeless [baron rating /5] - 5.7% black ale,beechwood smoky smell,balanced sweetish oily choc coffee taste,smooth fading finish
RedWillow Shameless
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| Bottle conditioned with perfect carbonation |
RedWillow Shameless [baron rating /5] - 5.9% gold ale,resinous plasticy fresh fruity smell,balanced fleshy fruits taste,pithy bitter finish
Looking forward to baron rating Beer52 ales
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I got sent a box of mixed ales from Beer52 as one of the perks of attending the European Beer Bloggers Conference in Dublin this year. Well I got contacted again recently to see if I would like to review another one of their packs, this time their Autumn pack:
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- Barcelona Cerdos Voladores -6% "Hi, this is #14" our rowdiest beer, made with the finest hops
- Belhaven Scottish Oat Stout - 7% oat stout, dark, rich and layered with a wonderful silky texture and a lingering finish
- Einstok Icelandic Toasted Porter [baron rating /5] - 6% toasted porter
- Freigeist Abraxxxas - 6% smoked Lichtenhainer Weisse. Inspired by the easten German tart wheat beer style once known as "Lichtenhainer", Abraxxxas is sour and complex, with a balancing smoky maltiness
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- Medus Blonde - 5% blonde, a light beer which is refreshing while having a full body and a characteristic bitterness
- Oppigards Golden Ale - 5.2% golden ale with a twist, American Cascade was used late in the boil to give a hint of flora & citrus
- Mordue Ascendancy - 7.4% Belgian double IPA-weizen hybrid brewed with candy sugar. A head storm of tropical fruit, mango and banana with a hop-forward, resiny finish
- Redwillow Wreckless [baron rating 5/5] - 4.8% pale ale, when you want a big hit of American hops and aroma, but don't want to fall off your seat
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| Savory popcorn and a beer mag too! |
Look out for 'baron ratings' of these beers soon, and a big thank you to Laurie from Beer52 for sending them through to me!
Buy all these ales from Beer52
UPDATE: If you do plan to buy some, make sure you use enter this discount code ORMSKIRK10 entitling you to £10 off your first box. All you have to do is visit beer52.com and click on 'got a special code?' underneath the 'get started' button!
RedWillow Heartless
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| Bottle conditioned with perfect carbonation |
RedWillow Heartless [baron rating /5] - 4.9% black ale,70% dark choc smell,berries burnt mild astringent taste,long black coffee finish
A baron's trip to the National Winter Ales Festival
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I really enjoyed visiting the National Winter Ales Festival last year but I wasn't able to go on trade day (the Wednesday) and so went at the weekend. By the time I got there most of the stuff I wanted to try was gone but it was still an excellent festival.
This year I was invited by Thwaites to come for the trade afternoon and so jumped at the chance for a ticket! The afternoon was booked off work, the train caught from Burscough Bridge on the direct train to Manchester Piccadilly and then a brisk walk planted me in The Marble Arch to meet a few other festival goers and to get a quick pint (of Pint) in before we caught the bus up to the venue.
Doors opened promptly at 2:30 and through good queue management a glass was in hand pretty quickly so off to choose my first beer before meeting Ian Bearpark, Brewery & Distribution Director for Thwaites at 3pm. I headed straight to RedWillow's section and chose a half of Heartless, a lovely smooth stout with a good chocolate edge to it.
I then wandered around the festival looking for the Thwaites stand but couldn't find it, finally bumped into Ian at the same bar from which I got the RedWillow, they didn't have a stand which came as a surprise to both of us. Ian then proceeded to walk me through their cask offerings at the festival:
Big Ben - 4.5% brown ale (used to be called Shuttle) a solid brown ale but brewed to be less sweet than Newcastle Brown Ale. It was a very sessionable beer, dark amber in colour which was quite light in it's taste and body but had some nice caramel and fruity notes to it.
13 Guns - 5.5% American IPA, to quote Ian he "chucked it all in" (with regards to the generous use of American hops). This beer was quite something and I can see why it got so much talk at GBBF. Ian mentioned that he is a massive fan of Stone beers and you can kind of see that when you try 13 Guns - it was a rich copper colour with a big citrus hoppy resinous quality to it. It also had that chewy aspect that you sometimes get with big malty but hoppy ales and had a wonderful sticky resinous finish. I don't often get the chance to drink IPAs on cask (it's normally bottles at home) so it was great to try such a beast of a beer.
Fallen Nun - This was the star of the show, although it didn't win any awards it was the one beer that everyone I met on the day was talking about - it's simply stunning. 7.4% black IPA, it was spicy on the nose with a big burst of fresh hops and a touch of acetone, the taste was thick & oily with a big roasted hoppy resinous bittersweet taste and a big dry resinous burnt finish. A truly stunning complex beer, I so hope that this becomes part of their bottled line-up as I think with a big of forced carbonation and a touch more chilling this would be a truly world-class bottled black IPA (think it would give Thornbridge Raven a run for it's money...)
Thwaites have gone down the route of a lot of large breweries at the moment, they have installed a mini-brewery inside the brewery to be able to experiment with some of these more adventurous ales, they have a 20 barrel brewery to 'play on' compared to their normal 360 barrel one.
It's really encouraging to see a national brewery like Thwaites producing stuff like 13 Guns and Fallen Nun, they are excellent beers that I would buy again and again, it just shows that the big boys can do 'craft' as long as they are allowed to do so.
After finishing up with Ian I managed to spend a short while with Mike from Okells Brewery who showed me their new branding on the pumpclips and talked me through two of their new beers, Olaf - a nice low ABV roasty stout and MPA (Manx Pale Ale) which was a lovely citrusy ale.
Then I generally milled about meeting folk (Chris Dixon, Jay Krause & a lovely lady from Port Street Beer House to name but a few) and supping quality beers until my internal beer-spidy sense told me it was time to go home!
A massive thank you to Ian from Thwaites for providing the trade session ticket and allowing me to sample their excellent cask ales :)
This year I was invited by Thwaites to come for the trade afternoon and so jumped at the chance for a ticket! The afternoon was booked off work, the train caught from Burscough Bridge on the direct train to Manchester Piccadilly and then a brisk walk planted me in The Marble Arch to meet a few other festival goers and to get a quick pint (of Pint) in before we caught the bus up to the venue.
Doors opened promptly at 2:30 and through good queue management a glass was in hand pretty quickly so off to choose my first beer before meeting Ian Bearpark, Brewery & Distribution Director for Thwaites at 3pm. I headed straight to RedWillow's section and chose a half of Heartless, a lovely smooth stout with a good chocolate edge to it.
I then wandered around the festival looking for the Thwaites stand but couldn't find it, finally bumped into Ian at the same bar from which I got the RedWillow, they didn't have a stand which came as a surprise to both of us. Ian then proceeded to walk me through their cask offerings at the festival:
Big Ben - 4.5% brown ale (used to be called Shuttle) a solid brown ale but brewed to be less sweet than Newcastle Brown Ale. It was a very sessionable beer, dark amber in colour which was quite light in it's taste and body but had some nice caramel and fruity notes to it.
13 Guns - 5.5% American IPA, to quote Ian he "chucked it all in" (with regards to the generous use of American hops). This beer was quite something and I can see why it got so much talk at GBBF. Ian mentioned that he is a massive fan of Stone beers and you can kind of see that when you try 13 Guns - it was a rich copper colour with a big citrus hoppy resinous quality to it. It also had that chewy aspect that you sometimes get with big malty but hoppy ales and had a wonderful sticky resinous finish. I don't often get the chance to drink IPAs on cask (it's normally bottles at home) so it was great to try such a beast of a beer.
Thwaites have gone down the route of a lot of large breweries at the moment, they have installed a mini-brewery inside the brewery to be able to experiment with some of these more adventurous ales, they have a 20 barrel brewery to 'play on' compared to their normal 360 barrel one.
It's really encouraging to see a national brewery like Thwaites producing stuff like 13 Guns and Fallen Nun, they are excellent beers that I would buy again and again, it just shows that the big boys can do 'craft' as long as they are allowed to do so.
After finishing up with Ian I managed to spend a short while with Mike from Okells Brewery who showed me their new branding on the pumpclips and talked me through two of their new beers, Olaf - a nice low ABV roasty stout and MPA (Manx Pale Ale) which was a lovely citrusy ale.Then I generally milled about meeting folk (Chris Dixon, Jay Krause & a lovely lady from Port Street Beer House to name but a few) and supping quality beers until my internal beer-spidy sense told me it was time to go home!
A massive thank you to Ian from Thwaites for providing the trade session ticket and allowing me to sample their excellent cask ales :)
RedWillow Fathomless
RedWillow Fathomless [baron rating /5] - 5.2% black stout,choc liquorice smell,rich smooth but watery taste,long rich red liquorice finish
Listen to what Chris, Paul (Source Deli) and the Baron have to say about it.
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Note: Bottle conditioned with some carbonation
Thank you to Toby from RedWillow Brewery for handing this over for a 'baron rating'!
Buy RedWillow ales from Source Deli
RedWillow Wreckless
RedWillow Wreckless [baron rating /5] - 4.8% pale gold ale,grapefruit smell,floral tropical slightly sweet taste,long fruity bitter finish
Note: Bottle conditioned with perfect carbonation
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RedWillow Ageless
RedWillow Ageless [baron rating /5] - 7.2% copper ale,vanilla tropical resin smell,resin herbal strong bitter taste,tropical bitter finish
Listen to what Chris, Paul (Source Deli) and the Baron have to say about it.
Download flash to hear the audio review
Subscribe in iTunes
Note: Bottle conditioned with perfect carbonation
Thank you to Toby from RedWillow Brewery for handing this over for a 'baron rating'!
Buy RedWillow ales from Source Deli
RedWillow Feckless
RedWillow Feckless [baron rating /5] - 4.1% dark amber ale,toffee choc smell,sultana classic English bitter taste,long fruity bitter finish
Listen to what Chris, Paul (Source Deli) and the Baron have to say about it.
Download flash to hear the audio review
Subscribe in iTunes
Note: Bottle conditioned with perfect carbonation
Thank you to Toby from RedWillow Brewery for handing this over for a 'baron rating'!
Buy RedWillow ales from Source Deli
RedWillow Sleepless
RedWillow Sleepless [baron rating /5] - 5.4% dark amber ale,green hops smell,big bitter tropical candied fruits taste,herbal bitter finish
Listen to what Chris, Paul (Source Deli) and the Baron have to say about it.
Download flash to hear the audio review
Subscribe in iTunes
Note: Bottle conditioned with perfect carbonation
Thank you to Toby from RedWillow Brewery for handing this over for a 'baron rating'!
Buy RedWillow ales from Source Deli
Looking forward to baron rating RedWillow ales
RedWillow Brewery has been brought to the Baron's attention via various people on Twitter talking about their ales on cask in various northern pubs. I didn't know that they bottled until Paul from Source Deli mentioned that Toby from RedWillow had dropped off some samples for baron rating:
RedWillow Brewery
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RedWillow Brewery
- Ageless - 7.2% double IPA - assertively hoppy with a long bitter finish
- Fathomless - 5.2% Oyster Stout - made with hand-shucked oysters & hand roasted oats
- Feckless - 4.1% Best Bitter - smooth toffee & caramel with English hops,a classic bitter
- Sleepless - 5.4% American Amber Ale, made with Nelson, Galaxy & Amarillo hops
Buy RedWillow ales from Source Deli
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