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Captain Cooker

Captain Cooker

Rated 3.080 by BeerPals
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Brewed by De Proef Brouwerij

Lochristi-Hijfte, Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium

Style:  Spiced Beer

5.7% Alcohol by Volume

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A truly unique beer combining the best brewing traditions of Belgium with the natural goodness of manuka leaves, fresh picked from the native forests of New Zealand. When Cpt. James Cook first landed in New Zealand over 200 years ago, he brewed a beer using the leaves of the manuka tree in a quest to protect the health of his crew from vitamin C deficiency. Little did he know that the indigenous Maori people had been using manuka for centuries for its health giving properties. In 1996 the Mussel Inn refined Cook's original recipe and has since been harvesting fresh manuka from the surrounding hills to produce a beer of unique flavour and quality. Today, the same beer is being brewed in Belgium using the best of its brewing techniques and the same manuka leaves from New Zealand.

ID: 30313 Last updated 1 month ago Added to database 16 years ago

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Statistics

Overall Rank38324
Overall Percentile31.7
Style Rank805 of 1289
Style Percentile37.5
Lowest Score3.0
Highest Score3.4
Average Score3.200
Weighted Score3.080
Standard Deviation0.000

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  • SIGMUND 7296 reviews
    rated 3.4 16 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    330 ml stubby bottle, thanks to oh6gdx and chris_o. ABV is 5.7%. I admit I had never heard of manuka before I got this beer! Clear amber colour, huge off-white head with an orangey hue. Moderate aroma of malts and spice, and something undefined which I suppose is the manuka leaves. The flavour has moderate malts and some caramel and undefined spice, with a noticeable bitterness in the finish, which might or might not be caused by manuka leaves, in addition to the hops? Definitely drinkable, but not particularly exciting.

  • OH6GDX 8394 reviews
    rated 3.0 16 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

    Bottled. Goldenish amber colour with big off-white head. Aroma is fruity, grassy, vegetably with some mild notes of yeast. Flavour is citrusfruits, some yeast and a lot of grass. Very mouthdrying.

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