Morland Old Speckled Hen (Bottle and can)

Morland Old Speckled Hen (Bottle and can)

Bottle and can: Filtered. Also available as "Smooth" from nitro keg.

Ingredients: Pipkin pale malt; Crystal Malt; brewers sugar; Bittering hops: Challenger; Aroma hops: Goldings and Challenger; Morland yeast.

Previously 5.2%

Was first brewed as a cask only beer in 1979 by Morland Brewery to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory in Abingdon. The name comes from the MG factory’s works car - the gold speckled MG Featherweight Fabric Saloon, affectionately known as the Ol’ Speckl’d ’Un. Brewed since 1999 by Greene King following the take-over of Morlands, using the same yeast.

Bottled Old Speckled Hen has been sterile filtered in the "Old Speckled Hen Hall" bottling facility since May 2006.
3.1
2006 reviews
Bury St. Edmunds, England

Community reviews

3.3 Pours a clear slight ed copper with an off white dense nitro head leaving lacing. Nose is slight caramel spice. Taste is malt spice slight sweetness. Good mouthfeel. Dry finish with slight lingering bitterness. Poured n to a pub glass, head is very thin. In to a Rogue stout glass, the head is thicker and remains. Traditional ale. 500ml can
3.6 # 2822; 3/2022. Aroma of bread and sweet cherries. Brilliant copper body; off-white head with low persistance. Bready, stone fruits, earthy, spicy, dry bitter finish, drinkable. Very good beer. 2 x 0,5l, clear glass bottle, supermarket, North Hykeham (Lincolnshire, England).
3.3 Can. Red pour. Roasty malt aroma. Caramel malty taste with some mild bitterness. Pleasant but a bit bland.
3.7 Aromat: slodowy, trochę estrów (czerwone jabłko, banan), leciutki karmel, chleb tostowy, odrobinę ziołowy i może majaczy gdzieś lekki cytrus. Wygląd: bursztynowe, klarowne, piana biała, redukuje się do cienkiego kożuszka. Smak: wytrawne, goryczka niska, ale zaznaczona, ziołowa. Odczucie w ustach: lekkie, wysycenie srednie do wysokiego, dla piwa lepiej chyba dać mu się odgazowac. Ogólnie: przyjemne, klasyczne piwo, dobrze się piję.
4.1 Oh these old commercial, classic bitter ales! Always had a weakness for them... Aroma of caramel, toffee, toasted bread, Golding hops, the most classic of English ale styles. Pours clear amber-copper, small head, dense and with good retention, with appropriate lacing. Tastes bitter, with caramel and toffee, toasted malts, bittering and floral hops. Great balance between malts and hops, although it's obviously a malt-forward beer. Smooth, creamy, soft carbonation, extremely drinkable, especially in this English weather day, with rain and 8C. This is a real ale that I hadn't had for years... and I should regret now! It's a beautiful thing, although it's an industrial product.
4.0 Amber, small non persistent white head. Aroma of honey and marmalade. Malty, sweet but balanced. Mandarin, grapefruit, honey. Very drinkable. With Jmd and Sm at Tau.
4.4 Translucent copper with a dense beige nitro head. Aroma has fruity and woodsy hop notes, complex yeast character, toasty malt, and faint diacetyl. Malt flavor has touches of toffee and dark fruit. Has a somewhat dirty character typical of British ales, which develops into nice complexity as it warms. Creamy medium body with light carbonation.
3.2 12 oz bottle. Smells very malty, caramel and toffee notes. Clear and amber in color. Taste is fairly sweet, getting toffee with a touch of bitter. Finish is sweet with a hint of bitter. OK, but too malty for my taste
2.8 Copper/chestnut brown with a frothy off-white head and an earthy fruit malt aroma. Mouthfeel is semi-creamy, it's malty and fruity and has a touch of bitterness in the finish, but has a weird dryness to it all, approaching staleness
3.1 Copper color. Floral hop aroma and hop flavor. Some sweet malt underneath. Dry, crisp finish.
2.7 Nussig röstmazlig im Antrunk. Karamell Aromen. Dezent carbonisiert. Metallisch im Nachgeschmack
3.5 Bottle from Waitrose. Pours a clear copper colour with a thinnish creamy off-white head. Aromas of dark fruits, caramel, bread, biscuits and a hint of spice. Taste is again fruity with more caramel, bread, biscuits, peppery spice and an earthy hop on the finish. Thinnish body, average carbonation and smooth slightly oily mouthfeel. Pretty decent.
5.0 Perfect
4.0 God fylde. Litt bittert, men ikke for mye.
2.0 440 ml can. There is a fixed, plastic nitrogen widget on the bottom of the can. Pours a very clear amber with the typical nitrogen head. The aroma is fruity with English esters. The mouthfeel is smooth because of the nitrogen. The flavor is of burnt malts with some buttery taste from diacetyl. The hop bitterness is quite sharp in the aftertaste. Not my favorite UK beer.
4.0 Amber pour. Thick foam. Buttery caramel and vanilla flavor with golden wheat notes. Caramel palate. Sweet finish.
3.4 Pours a clear amber colour with a small white head. Smell of malt and dades. Taste of malt, raisins, caramel and dried nuts. Nice bitterness. A classic.
3.6 500ml can. Pours a clear copper with a small off white head. Aroma is sweet malty toffee. Taste is similar, it's all about sweet malt. The bitterness is dialed well back. I wonder if this varies a bit from can to bottle from the reviews. This can was tasty but really quite sweet, even more so than the commercial NZ beers of the 1980s. A bit of a throwback but inoffensive.
3.8 Old rating from 2014 - 500ml bottle, pours amber with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, toffee, honey, nuts, grain & malt. Moderate body. Dry slightly bitter finish
3.5 Rocky tan head stayed on a reddish brown still body. Malt & spicy fruits aroma. Medium bodied, tickly with a smooth back. Malt, caramel, toffee, fruity & demerara tastes. Not bad.
3.1 500ml can. Clear orange copper with a foamy beige head. Flavors are honey and butterscotch with herbal and fruity notes. Light to medium body, soft carbonation, slick texture.
2.0 Mild pleasant taste.
2.6 Standard
3.6 Bottle, 50 cl @home. Pours a clear reddish dark golden with a frothy white head. Caramalts in the nose and a little yoghurt. Taste is bitter, malty and burnt caramel. A hint of bitter nuts. Medium - high carbonation.
2.9 Nose. Caramel notes, floral herbaceous hops. Taste. Slightly dryish, slight malty sweetness, light nutty notes. long bitterness in the aftertaste.
3.4 Malty ergo good.
3.2 Very sweet upfront, then slightly metallic, tart finish. Aroma of caramel and bubblegum.
3.3 APARÊNCIA âmbar profundo, límpido. creme bege claro de média formação e boa duração. AROMA caramelo, frutas secas, toffee e leve cravo. SABOR biscoito, caramelo, pão e final seco. SENSAÇÃO corpo médio e carbonatação moderada.
3.3 On tap at Brook's Kitchen & Tap in Oakbrook Terrace, IL. nitro dispensed to a shaker showing a clear, deep amber hue, with a silky layer of persistent, off white froth, and a sudsy blanket of clinging lace. The nose was soft grain & malt, with a touch of dried fruit, and slight caramel. A little less than medium bodied, with no carbonation left after the initial nitro push, the taste was as the aroma, adding some earthy astringency & dryness to the finish. Would've preferred a little less of a creamy display and more effervescence to showcase the existing notes. Too "Smooth".
3.3 Morland Old Speckled Hen 5.0%. Reddish amber, earthy toffee malt, medium bodied, toffee malt, spices, citrus, sweet grapefruit finish. Pleasant strong EPA from Suffolk.