Felinfoel Double Dragon

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

Light golden amber pour with a soda pop-like bubbly cream head and very sporadic lacing. Light funky aroma with malts and figs, slight fruitiness, hint of sour and hops. Taste is light with a slightly sour and bitter flavor tempered by the sweet malts.

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

A rather interesting beer that I’ve seen several times while out shopping. The beer pours out a dark cream-soda like color with a scant 1/2" off white head. Aroma is rummy raisins, iced tea, and some apple juice. Flavor has some light sweetness up front with a light bitter finish. Apple juice and yeast are the main components of the flavor. Easy to finish off the 500 ml bottle. Not bad really.

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

This is one of the weakest bitters I have ever had the (dis)pleasure of trying. The beer pours a typical British red-brown colour with little or no head. The aroma is nutty and malty. The flavour is malty with a hoppy finish.

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

Cask@Angleterre, Helsinki. Reddish amber colour with small creamy off white head. Weak flowery hops and some nuttyness in aroma. Flavour is malts, flowery hops and some caramel. Gets very spicy on the tongue in the aftertaste.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Beer poured with a seriously overflowing head - the glass was roughly 75% foam with a careful pour. (perhaps contaminated) Color was a beautiful deep amber color - once the head settled down it looked quite good on top. Aroma was slightly hoppy, but was overshadowed by a persistent soapy/medicinal note. Decent fruity malt flavor typical of a bitter, but a sour note again makes me wonder if it was spoiled or just not too good. Finish was of faint floral hop with sweet & sour malt aftertaste.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 3

Ugh.

This one really adds fuel to the fire, for folks that really can't stand imported beers. And while their argument is normally centered around the age of the beer by the time it gets to the their store shelf (and then into their `fridge), I'm not convinced at all that this sample is aged-and-off, nor am I convinced that it was worthwhile fresh back in Wales.

Aside from the minimal carbonation, nothing about this beer screams "I'm old and way past drinking, laddy!". But, on the other hand, their is much evidence of this being a just plainly lousy drop of beer -- that happen to come from across the Atlantic.

Aside from the rather dull appearence, what's the next thing I find? Holy crap, what a crappy aroma! Smelled like my cats' litter boxes. And no, I don't mean the dried up solid stuff, but the much worse urine/ammonia... I'm all about fruity esters and such in English- (and, presumably, Welsh)-style beers, but this one takes on a whole new -- and much worse -- angle to "estery".

No "wet carboard" in the mouth -- giving further credence that this is not an old sample. But with the flacid mouthfeel, the anonymous malt, and the hops dying in vain under the onslaught of the evil estery hordes, this beer doesn't stand a chance.

I gave up on this one half-way through my 500mL imperial pint glass-worth of this. Really pretty bad, IMO. Or, as my bud DaBum would say, "It's naff". Dumped.

Maybe this kicks ass and takes names off a cask in Wales. But bottled? Don't go there, please....

Music: Finntroll's "Jaktens Tid"
//TB

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

This bitter pours a deep brown color from a 500ml bottle. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is sweet malts and a touch earthy. A medium bodied bitter. Malts are fruity and sweet. Touch of peat, moss and wood. Mild flavors. Nice session ale. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet,

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

Bottle. Reddish brown coloured with a slim off-white head. Faint fruity and malty aroma. Unusual taste; apples, malt and caramel. Thin bodied. Not one I’ll be trying again.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

dark amber colour, almost no head and absolutely no lacing, nutty, subtle aroma, light-bodied and flat flavour followed by a nutty explosion in the finish

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

Bottle. Nice cloudy light copper body coloring. Thin white head. Aroma of strong bubblegum and apples. the taste is a confusing mixture of some bubblegum, dirt and sour apples. Also has notes of bread crust. Overall an interesting bitter, I imagine much better on cask.