Daleside Old Legover

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

This old ale pours a medium brown color from a 50cl bottler. Medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is caramel and nutty, a touch earthy. A medium bodied old ale. Malts are caramel and bready, sort of semi-sweet. Hops are floral and earthy. Nice balance. Its not quite a session ale, it’s a little hoppy and floral to knock back several quickly, but it light enough overall that you could drink quite a few during the course of an evening. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

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

Dark amber colour, with a small slightly off-white head. Aroma is mainly caramel and fruity hops. Flavour is quite the same with some wood and slight nutty notes. Pleasant, but quite watery.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

~ 500mL brown (not clear) bottle, purchased in Laurel MD, and sampled a week later in San Diego CA.

In keeping with my string of far-away British ales purchased during not-so-far-away East Coast business trips, popped this one open to wash down a turkey sandwich, whilst watching the Padres and Angels ballgame. One of the better beers from that lot, me'thinks.

Pours well, with a nice head rising up, calming down, and then politely sticking around `til the end. Rusty/oak-wood in appearence. And the nose is pretty nice, too. Hints of roasted nuts admidst the malt in the aroma.

Reminded me of the many excellent cask-conditioned Real Ales I had while in Cornwall. And while this beer strays from the Cornish habit of "Goldings & Challenger, and naught much else!", I'd say this beer does have some things in common with it's Southern kin. Namely, the "freshly pulled from the firkin" character in the flavor profile -- quite easy and refreshing on the palate. Bitter enough to matter, good balance with this one. With 4.1%ABV, the brewer doesn't have much in the way of leeway -- room for error, as it were -- but in this case, this is keeper in my book.

The old guy on the label has the right idea with this one. I'd raise a leg too if it meant being able to raise a pint of this later... :)

Music: Darkstar's "Marching Into Oblivion"
//TB

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Nice dark amber color, small white bubbly head. Nutty and slightly peppery aroma. Watery and malty flavor with some roastiness. Metallic short finish with sourish undertones. Not impressed.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Bottle. Poured a clear reddish-brown color with a medium white head. Decent lacing. Nutty and malty aroma. Flavor is very watered-down, but not horrible. Light, malty aftertast to go with the nutty flavor. Nothing that I would ever buy again (at least not in the states).

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

This poured a reddish brown appearance. An almost non existent aroma of nutmeg and veggies. There isn’t much flavor to this beer but what little thats there is very nice. A definite caramel presence exists along with some nutmeg and vanilla flavors. Some chocolate in the background. Its simple but perhaps Im really beginning to appreciate that in beer after the billions of high octane American beers Ive had lately. Overall its pretty good.

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

The aroma is sweet and malty with some hints of hops with some cream characteristics. The appearance is great and a creamy, dark red amber with some orange and a head that is off-white and medium-sized but diminishes to only lacing after a while and sticks to the glass. The mouthfeel is medium to full-bodied and full of malty complexity and has good hoppy balance. The flavor is creamy and very smooth with some spice as well as some faint hints of smoke in the aftertaste. The aftertaste is also wet-like and coats the pallet nicely and goes down smooth with hints of faint spice and is creamy. Overall, a very good beer and lives up to the hype I have heard about it but is a bit light for my tastes and a little low in alcohol but, nonetheless, a very excellent beer and very refreshing and tasty.

Aroma: 0 | Appearance: 0 | Mouthfeel: 0 | Flavor: 0 | Overall: 0