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St Albans Beer Festival 2006 (CAMRA Beer Festival)
| Beer (sort) | Average Score (sort) | No. Samples (sort) |
|---|---|---|
| Spectrum - Black Buffle Stout |  | 1 |
| Hopstar - Smokey Joe Porter | | 1 |
| Green Tye - Coal Porter | | 1 |
| Hidden - Potential |  | 1 |
| Alehouse - Milk & Alcohol | | 1 |
| Nethergate (was Nethergate Growler for a while then name reverted) - Black Shadow (superseded by 4.7% version) |  | 1 |
| Bartrams - Mother Mcleary's Stout | | 1 |
Visits Details
30 Sep 2006 (Andrew)
What a fantastic beer line up and what an awful venue. Imagine having a beer festival in a council office block. The main hall had no seating because if was just too small for people to sit down in so you either went through the corridoor, down some stairs and into a basement room or up the stairs round a corner and into an enlarged corridoor with a balcony. Either way you were lucky to find a seat and when you did you were jammed in like a sardine. However, if we ignore the venue and concentrate on the beer I'd have to say the whole thing was good.
| Beer | ABV | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Tye - Coal Porter | 4.50 | | Black with no real head. Smells of slightly sour malt and grain. Big sour taste with hints of oats and a low level burnt finish |
| Spectrum - Black Buffle Stout | 4.50 | | Good sparse copper-cream head. Smelt of watery stale coffee. Lots of coffee and whiskey flavours. Medium bodied with a sweet bitter burnt finish |
| Hopstar - Smokey Joe Porter | 4.00 | | Lots of vanilla in this jet black porter. Smooth and bitter with a rough vanilla finish |
| Hidden - Potential | 4.80 | | Listed as a Hilden beer but hey, with a name like 'Potential' I guessed straight away it was a Hidden beer. Copper coloured with a syrupy smell and tangy rich, slightly syrupy bite and dulled bitter finish |
| Alehouse - Milk & Alcohol | 4.40 | | Thin body, jet black, with sparse head. Smelt of mild coffee. A milky coffe sour taste. Too cloying for a 4/5 so 3.5/5 |
| Nethergate (was Nethergate Growler for a while then name reverted) - Black Shadow (superseded by 4.7% version) | 3.50 | | Couldn't work out if this was 1 minute away from going off or whether it was supposed to taste like this. Big sour bite with burnt finish on this black mild |
| Bartrams - Mother Mcleary's Stout | 4.30 | | Mild seaweed smell. Acrid, but watery, taste with coffee bitter finish |
About the St Albans Beer Festival 2006
Summary of Beer Scores
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| 3 |
| 2 |
| 2 |
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The pub is found in St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 3LD.
A CAMRA 300 beer festival held in the centre of St Albans.
We have visited this pub once, seen 7 different beers and tried them all.
Postcode: AL1 3LD