Theakston Old Peculier (Cask)
Cask; Regular.
The beer that made Masham famous!
A rich, dark, smooth-tasting beer with an unequalled flavour. Brewed using the traditional Fuggle hop, Old Peculier is our best known beer and has a large and enthusiastic following all over Britain and around the world.
The beer that made Masham famous!
A rich, dark, smooth-tasting beer with an unequalled flavour. Brewed using the traditional Fuggle hop, Old Peculier is our best known beer and has a large and enthusiastic following all over Britain and around the world.
3.6
220 reviews
Masham, England
Community reviews
Cask @ JDW Montgomery's Tower, Shrewsbury for Simon's 50th. Pours a deep mahogany, creamy off-white head. Aroma has a gentle leathery treacle, continuing to taste. Smooth, a touch creamy, medium bodied, some distant oaky nods, nice toasty malt base. Good.
Tasted at The Ship Inn Bristol on 7-9 Lower Park Row,
where you can find it always on tap. Very nice rich, dark and smooth.
Quite sweet, malty dried fruit. Nice frothy head from swan neck style pump dispense. Recommended.
Interesting taste, not quite sure
Cask - dark red with strong creamy tan head - very appealing. Pleasant aroma. Good mouthfeel, fairly strong tasting - good finish.
One of the best beers for me. Dark, thick, liquorice and a tad of chocolate
* Cask 5.6%.
* Appearance is dark reddish brown with a thick beige lasting head.
* Aroma is medium, malt, plum and dark fruit.
* Palate is medium body, low carbonation, with very fine bubbles.
* Taste is strong, dark fruit, sweets, and a touch of licorice.
* Finish leads to a slightly dry bitterness.
* Overall rich and satisfying. 4/5
2019: Queen's with family. Full bodied, silky, malty, yummy, no longer scary
2022: still great at the Lytham station tavern
Not sure how ratings work but this is the definitive dark beer for me. Forget the pale and hoppy...go malty and dark
Cask at the Salisbury Ale House. Dark ruby pour with a white head. Nose of toffee apple, caramel, sweet malt. Flavours of orchard fruit, dried fruit, toffee. Very nice.
Cask at The Cock Inn, Leek (Joules) A deep brown colour with a medium beige head. Aroma of dried fruits, chocolate, some blackberries, slight roasted malts and subtle treacle. Taste of dried fruits, blackberries, some chocolate, treacle, slight toasted malts and subtle spicy hops. Medium bodied and soft carbonation. A sweetish, dried fruit and chocolate finish. Sweeter than the last time I had this, however it’s deep in flavour and super smooth.
Van tap in Londen. Fruitig, Droppig, Schwarzbier. Malten. Caramel, Rozijn. (7-2016).
Rich and dark with a late developing slight sourness that fades into a creamy light aftertaste.
Cask at the Nags Head, Henley in Arden. Pours Guinness black with creamy tan head. Rich, dark brew with fantastic complexity, blackberries, malt, caramel, molasses. Deliciously smooth and well balanced, a unique pint
My first experience of old peculiar but certaintly wont be the last. From the fisrt to the last mouthfull the taste is an explosion of different flavours. Even the wife tried this one and enjoyed it
Cask at the Golf, Foxhall Road, Ipswich. Backlog rating from historic scoring. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Cask pint at the Assembly Rooms, Epsom. Pours ruby with a white head. Aroma of malt and toffee. Sweet taste and finish.
It seem that this tap version is better than the botteld one. Nice. Meaby better becaus of the place it's served.
My fav stout by a mile. Love it
A pint of memories and pleasure in a glass. Rewards the curious drinker with a complex fruity and full bodied character. Enjoy at its best by visiting the White Bear, Masham.
Grand old drop when you’ve had a hard day pacing around the dales. Malty, sticky and a little punchy.
Many, many pints in pubs over the years. This is an excellent pint of beer -- it’s got a lot of malt complexity, all of which comes out particularly well on cask, as well as some earthy and spicy hop flavor from the English fuggles. Definitely worth ordering if you see it on cask.
Cask at praf 2017. Pours deep ruby, nose is caramel, berries, oak, raisin, taste is sweet, sticky toffee, fruity, dry finish.
Cask. Aroma fruit and caramel malt. Pours chestnut with thin lace top. Frankly in my youth this tasted completely differently. I would smile as soon as I saw it was on. Now it has dark fruit, liquorice and a slightly soapy finish whereas once it was Christmas pudding in a glass. Maybe I have aged better?
From a wooden cask at Glasgow Real Ale Festival. This is such an interesting beer, and very different from what is bottled. The aroma is rich and malty, but also sharp, with a very fine sour note. The taste matches this accurately. Barrel ageing has added so much to the complexity: it’s malty and rounded, but also has the sharp tang of secondary fermentation. I suppose the downside of using wooden barrels is their variability. I tried this beer at the Paisley Beer Festival last year and it was very disappointing, whereas this glass was most excellent.
Cask at the Black Horse, Brierley Hill. Pours dark reddy brown with a large head. Aroma is sour raisin and caramel. Taste is raisin and caramel with some sour wood.
Tap. Clear, brown, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, oily feel, soft carbonation, & bitter finish.
pint @ The Lamb & Flag, Oxford. This has the malty flavour of the bottled version but also something extra. A taste that is hard to explain coming from the live yeast. Just a bit dryness also in a nice way. Quite excellent!
Cask. Malty brown beer. Tasted a little "thin" but that may be due to it being from a cask.
Rather sweet malt aroma, which is not really balanced out by the complexity of the flavours.
Cask at The Moon Under Water, Wolverhampton. As ’Theakston Old Peculier’. Very dark brown with a red hue, creamy off-white head endures and leaves dotted lacing. Aroma is cardboard, molasses and underlay. Body is medium, smooth, soft carbonation. Taste is raisin, rum, bread, gluey, varnish, apple peel, spicy finish. Just not my type of thing.