Beer
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William
Roscoe
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Brewery
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Liverpool Organic Brewery
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ABV
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4.5%
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Nutritional
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Bottle
Conditioned Real Ale suitable for Vegans and Vegetarians
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Notes
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This ale
has an interesting floral nose. There is ever such a slight scent of pear
drops or acetone folded tightly within the bouquet. Unless the brewer was
diabetic and fell into the vat… or was sucking a pear drop at the time. That
aside, it is a very pleasant, almost sublime introduction to this expertly
blended ale. The blurb reads A light
floral ale made with pure organic pale ale malt and the classic English hop
Fuggles. And it is this pale ale- meets- Fuggles dynamic which generates
kaleidoscopes of endless interest. The musty study bookshelf is sprung and
creaks invitingly open to reveal a hidden corridor, a current of heuristic
flavour behind the array. Deeper down there is also a fruity pipe tobacco
aroma at play. Named after the Renaissance anti- slavery campaigner and poet,
perhaps the ghost of Roscoe himself walks by and nods in approval in a puff
of thoughtful smoke. I can easily imagine I am in one of those Liverpool ‘old
man’ boozers that, tiled and unashamedly Victorian, haunts recesses of raw,
forlorn and rainswept streets glowing cheerfully with dim & eager lanterns,
beckoning you in to ruin or folly, for ‘just one more.’ And there I could put
the pain of the conspiratorial world to rights. And after this meditation and
the inevitably unwelcome discipline of the “Last Orders” bell, I could rise
lightly like inspiration’s smoke and meander freely outside. There, I would
exhale into the moist receptive night my heartfelt thoughts, wrapped in
fruits of pipe tobacco and swirling in pear drops. And stumble home.
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Marks /10
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9.5 (lack
of certification, and sediment is a problem)
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By South Utsire
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