Beer
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Rampart
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Brewery
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Bragdy
Conwy Brewery
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ABV
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4.5%
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Nutritional
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Bottle
Conditioned, Vegetarian
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Notes
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Some of
my most cherished beer experiences originate from North Wales, so it was with great enthusiasm
I sampled this beer. The bottle says Rampart is tasty. But in truth I have
found it TOO TASTY for its own good. There is a deep, mellow resonant
character to this beer, with an almost treacle- like camphorous and phenolic
quality mingled in, which wouldn’t be unwelcome in a Christmas pudding. You
want the alcohol content of 4.5% to slip gracefully through your senses and
not linger so heavily like a soggy Soreen slap. The brewers claim a “smooth,
spicy, citrusy” flavour to the goldings, which is at least partly true, but with
the fuggles it is a trifle too much (trifle being the operative word). All of
this stodge doesn’t allow the delicate silver waters of the Conwy to get
through to the palette, and the whole thing dies a death on the ramparts of
its own complexity.
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Marks /10
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6.9 (Its Dostoyevsky for your taste buds)
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By South Utsire
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