{"id":373,"date":"2012-09-03T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:52:33","slug":"old-worthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Old Worthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I got a message on twitter asking if I would like to try some beer. Well, it would be rude not to, so I replied to the message, they then asked my address, which I gave them and that was the last I heard about it, \u00a0that is until this weekend. When I got back from work on Friday I found I had a parcel waiting for me. Sure enough, inside was a bottle of Old Worthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So what was it like? Well, I’m sure you can see from the picture that it was a light golden coloured beer. It was highly carbonated, as is often the case with bottled beers. I found that it was a bit too fizzy for me I’m afraid, but that’s not to say that it spoilt the drink. Far from it, I really enjoyed this bottle.<\/p>\n

Taste? Well first of all, all I could think was that I found it to be particularly sweet. I was expecting there to be a more hoppy taste to it than there was, which I found slightly disappointing. Also I didn’t really find much of an earthy, peaty flavour, which the bottle talks about. There was a more grassy, lemony feel to it, although that doesn’t quite put justice to what I was tasting. There was another flavour in there which I can’t put my finger on. I want to say rubber, but that would be doing the beer a disservice. What ever it was I found it worked well with the other flavours.<\/p>\n

I would say that I should have let the bottle chill a bit before drinking, this bottle had been left on the side all day and I fear was a bit too warm to judge fully. I would also be interested to see how it differs when it is on draught. I have been trying to find if there is going to be a cask version available, but the website is a little sparse. I would guess that Old Worthy would make a good cask ale, not being quite so sparkling and also being kept at the right\u00a0temperature\u00a0in the cellar would help to showcase the flavours in the beer.<\/p>\n

Final verdict: <\/strong><\/p>\n

6\u00bd \/ 10 <\/strong><\/p>\n

I would guess that a cask version would score higher, but for me it was slightly too fizzy and the flavours a bit\u00a0unpronounced.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I got a message on twitter asking if I would like to try some beer. Well, it would be rude not to, so I replied to the message, they then asked my address, which I gave them and that was the last I heard about it, \u00a0that is until this weekend. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booze","travel-monster-post","no-post-thumbnail","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}