Wychwood Fiddlers Elbow (Bottle)
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Barley and wheat malts and hopped with Styrians.
Retired 2004 - replaced by 4.5% abv version (which itself was retired by 2014). Ratings after 2005 are likely to be placed here by mistake for the 4.5% version.
Barley and wheat malts and hopped with Styrians.
Retired 2004 - replaced by 4.5% abv version (which itself was retired by 2014). Ratings after 2005 are likely to be placed here by mistake for the 4.5% version.
2.9
464 reviews
Witney, England
Community reviews
Bottle@home, 50cl. Head: beige colored foam. Color: amber. Aroma: malt, hops. Taste: some bitter, mild. Palate: dry, a little watery, not long lasting. Overall: nice.
’The last night of the Proms’ is on the television, so what better beer to watch it than Fiddlers Elbow?
Brown 500ml bottle, best before March 2008, drank Sept 2007: poured into one of my Franziskaner Weissbier glasses, well it is brewed with wheat.
Light red in colour, an orange hue to it, sparkling and clear with bubbles ripping through towards the full, half-inch thick off-white head.
The aroma is all about sweet caramel, very strong in deed.
The taste is a bit of a let down, caramel flavours, but not much else. As the beer warmed some lemony, citrus notes did arrive and the sweetness gave way to a tartness I didn’t take too.
I have had this beer on draught (cask) and it was a lot better than this bottle. A strange beer to review, fairly weak mouthfeel, but there is something there, difficult to explain, my vocabulary obviously isn’t up to describing it.
Poured a cloudy golden color from the bottle. Aromas of malt, bread, anise, and some bubblegum. Flavor is the same, with some yeast in the back end, interesting beer overall.
16.9 oz bottle pours hazy amber with a white head. Aroma and taste of sweet malts and a bit of yeast.
Sorry for the german rating, but this is a lousy rating from my "newbie" time (2007-2009), and it’s not worth of being translated. I just added it for the statistics, and to complete my backlog!
Das Bier ergießt sich rötlich gelb, mit leichten Orange – Stich in mein Glas. Es bildet sich leider nur wenig Schaum. Geruchlich dominiert ein süßliches Hopfenaroma. Der Antrunk ist anfangs ebenfalls süßlich, aber dann kommt ein angenehmes, mildes Hopfenaroma durch, der Abgang zeigt sich hingegen ein wenig säuerlich. Wirkt trotz höherem Alkoholgehalt wesentlich milder als andere Wychwood Biere. Trotzdem noch ein absoluter Leckerbissen!!!
Pours a murky golden/olive color. Aroma is of malt, lactic, dough, bubblegum, anise, and bark. Very different. Flavor is of barley, wheat, fig, grain, slight citrus, and yeast. Leaves a sweeter yeasty finish. Different.
Hazy orangish brown with floaties light head, nice mild malt aroma hop aroma is not much there.
Soft mouthfeel with mellow citrus fruit hops very lightly sweet finishing tart with a tiny tip of the tounge bittering lightly drying with english character Dont really care for this hop/english finishing flavor thoughThere is also a medicinal/mineral flavor in the finish.An ok beer to have ocasionally.
Bottle @ Lorry in Oslo. Amber colour with a white head. Fresh taste and lots of hops in the flavour. Hoppy, fruity and moderate malty aroma. Almost a perfect British ale.
Deep golden color with a medium sized white head. Fruity and malty aroma. Sweet malty, caramel flavor.
500ml bottle. Amber colour. Light body, taste is maltiness and sweetness. It was somewhat odd, but enjoyable.
Cloudy hazy amber colored beer, almost no head. Not a very nice smell. Average taste, low to medium carbo and body. Decent.
5/23/11. 500mL bottle. Clear orange pour with a small, fluffy tan head that fades and laces none. Corny adjunct lager aroma with a dose of metal and sweet fusels. Sweet, burnt malt flavor with lemon peel and corn. Also some butter in there. This is like some sort of weird malt liquor bitter but not as strong. Blech.
Strong malt/hops balance, the hops cut through slightly, a pretty good ESB overall.
Pours toffee-amber with an off-white small creamy head.
Nose shows resinous, earthy English hops and a load of toffee and caramel malt. Some doughy notes in the background. Pretty nice, if somewhat faint.
Flavours follow along these lines with toffee and caramel followed by some resinous hops and accompanying light bitterness. Unfortunately it ends with a somewhat cidery metallic finish.
Good moderate carbonation and med-light body.
50 cl bottle, Shelburne. Pale amber colour, frothy persistent head. Malty hopped aroma, nice bitterness and floral flavour. Fairly smooth, long finish.
Just smells malty, not much hops. A bit of bready yeast and alcohol.
Very little flavour, just some sweet malt. Tastes kind of old as well.
Not really my thing.
Butterscotch, grass, and honey aroma. Clear amber, thin head. Honey and butterscotch flavor with a frothy abrupt finish. Decent, but lacking.
Bottle from the LCBO. 5.2%. Clear amberish-yellow (pale) pour with a weak, bubbly white head, little retention. Aroma was sweet malts and grains. Taste was pretty bland, and a little too grainy, but a fair amount of Styrian hops in the flavour, and the bitter finish was well achieved. Just OK for me.
500 ml bottle. Murky orange brown, thin white head, scant lacing. Aroma of fresh bread dough. Taste has sour orange, coriander, lemon. Decent body. Not bad.
500ml bottle. Pours a cloudy amber, with a minimal head. There is caramel malt on the nose, with hints of grassy hops. The initial flavour is a mixture of floral and grassy hops, and this moves into a quickly fading caramel finish. A good solid bitter.
Light fruity aroma. Little foam, which disapears quickly. Light amber color. Bit grassy or hay like flavour with light bitterness. Pleasant beer!
Bottle. Creamy white good dark yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Light grassy notes. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Watery palate. A little boring.
I was a little kind to this one and I need to re rate. Lots of fruity aromas in nose and similar feel on the palate. Balanced bitters. Rated 6/29/2000
Ok, I’m biased here. Based on previous experiences with Wychwood and the rating here (I wish there was some way to bypass the other ratings on your way to this page), I do not have high expectations for this beer. I mean, this is the brewery that unleashed the evil Bah! Humbug Christmas Ale upon the Western hemisphere, and I haven’t forgotten yet... Anyway, gonna give it as fair a chance as I’m capable of. Here we go: pours a smooth, slightly hazy body with a dense, long-lasting head, looking pretty good, at least. Smell is typically ale-ish: some top fermentation ester hints, a lot of caramel malts and a bit of fruitiness to boot. And then there’s the taste. *first sip* I said, the taste. *second sip* Aw, come on now, gimme some taste ye lousy excuse for an ale! *third sip, all sensors wide open* Ok, I give up. There’s nothing here. Nothing. Just a kind of thick, oily water. Jeez, guys - they make commercial mild bitters packing more punch than this. It’s not even gonna make the cut as a session ale; might as well drink a lot of water and inject yourself with some pure alcohol to get drunk. What an incredible downer. And I swear to God, I’m not biased here! (But if Wynchwood doesn’t come up with something vaguely interesting coming my way soon, I will at least have good reason for my prejudices... :-P)
Most of Wychwood’s beers are pretty good. Picked up this one to try out. Pour is golden with hint of amber. Head is moderate and almost completely white. Aroma is hoppy, malty with a little of wheat smell. Taste is bitter hops, floral tones with a slightly bitter finish. Overall, not a bad bitter, but not impressive.
Bottle. Clear golden colour with large creamy white mostly lasting head. Hoppy aroma with honey notes. Bitter flavor and finish. Oily palate.
enjoyable straw/honey coloured brew, very easy on the palate, with honey and nectarine flavours coming throu. restrained bitterness just a little lacking for me. the wheat as described is certainly there.
Pours light amber with an off white head. Aroma is earthy malt, light caramel, and floral hop. Flavor is light caramel, and fruity malt, with a bit of grassy hop.
Clear amber, light beige head. Restrained caramel, nectarine and hay aroma. Mild sweet taste with no real firmness in the malt or funk from the wheat. Hops pop up on the palate at the end, but there’s not much bitterness. Quite prickly carbonation doesn’t hide the deadness of the brew.
Bottle. Pours hazy orangeish amber with a creamy white head that doesn’t last long. Aroma is quite malty with notes of caramel, citrus and grass. Flavour is pretty much the same with a little more noticeable hoppy citrus notes. Light bodied with moderate carbonation and a lingering bitter finish. Not a terrible ESB but not particularly memorable either.