Drink a chicken! (Morland Old Speckled Hen)

Member Name: charliebrown

Product:	Morland Old Speckled Hen
Date:	20/06/01 (77 review reads)
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Advantages: wonderful taste and aroma, stylish packaging, strong

Disadvantages: not cheap

Old Speckled Hen. It's a beer. Honest! And a damn good bear at that!

Brewed by Morlands brewery, and named not after a chicken with measles, but an old vintage sports car, this is the king of real ales ... undoubtedly. Not only is it a whacking 5.2% in a 500ml bottle, but the beer tastes wonderfully smooth.

The beer has a wonderful aroma, a sort of sweetness like fruit and nuts. Drink the beer and a similarly smooth experience ensues! You get the slight sweetness of caramel and toffee, plus a fruity lightness together with the malts and hops. Not a trace of bitterness in sight, so this beer should appeal to many. The beer has a lovely fizz to it which is slightly too gassy for my liking, but nowhere near as gassy as some othr bottle beers I could mention. Also the colour is a pale straw which reminds me of summer afternoons in the garden!

The bottle is also a joy to behold, being a clear, long necked bottle with shaped bottom. It would make a great mantlepiece item when you've finished!!

Available on 3 for 2 quie often in supermarkets, you can also save money on the steep £1.70 or so a bottle by buying a box of 8 bottles for around £10.

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