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Museum Brewing, Thorntons Chocolate Beer (England) 
This beer is brewed for Thorntons in the Museum Brewery of Coors in Burton-on-Trent, home of White Shield IPA. It is very interesting stuff and very grown up, with 8:0% Alcohol and a very dark and bitter flavour profile. The colour is a very dark, opaque ruby/black with a cappucino-coloured head. The nose is unmistakably chocolaty, with deep vanilla pod aromas and a hint of sourness. On the palate it is thick, dense and chewy, and a fleeting glimpse of sweet, milky chocolate is quickly overtaken by fantastically bitter, cocoa powder and licquoricy depths, with a tang of hops and a malty richness. The flavour really lingers in the uncompromisingly dry finish. 8.0% ABV, 27.5cl, �3.0, Thorntons Online.  |  |
Museum Brewing, Worthington White Shield (England)
Now brewed in the marvelous Museum Brewery on the original Bass plant in Burton on Trent, which is now owned by Coors. This beer has "come home", as Brewer Steve Wellington, who made this beer for Bass in the 1960s, has come out of retirement to make it again. It has a dark gold colour with a hint of amber and just off-white head. The nose is filled with honeyed notes, with hints of caramelly crystal malt and a grassy quality along with a hint of citrus. On the palate this delicious beer has a slightly iodine, salty note and a dry palate of sour and bitter hop flavours dominating a background of toasty, quite chewy toffee character. there's a really nice hoppy bite in the finish of this beautifully balanced beer, which has very good length too. 5.6% ABV, 50cl, �1.85, Booth's, Co-op, Livingbeer.com, Safeway, Sainsbury's, Unwins.  |  |
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