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Grozet
Williams Brothers Brewing Company
- From:
- Williams Brothers Brewing Company
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Gruit / Ancient Herbed Ale
Ranked #18 - ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 80
Ranked #25,969 - Avg:
- 3.54 | pDev: 13.56%
- Reviews:
- 331
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 24, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 13, 2001
- Wants:
- 15
- Gots:
- 17
From the Gaelic "Groseid", Since at least the 16th century Scots monks and alewives brewed indigenous drinks from cereals, wild herbs and ripe fruits. Tibbie Shiels green Grozet was immortalised by such Scots literati as Sir Walter Scott, Jas Hogg. (The Ettrick shepherd) and Robert Burns whoconsidered it a most convivial drink. Brewed with lager malt, wheat, bog myrtle, hops and meadowsweet then secondary fermented with ripe Scottish gooseberries.
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Ratings by -DF-:
Rated by -DF- from Russian Federation
3.21/5 rDev -9.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Mar 07, 2015
3.21/5 rDev -9.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Mar 07, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by octortus from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
330 mL Bottle. ABV 5%.
Appearance: pale gold, half finger, off white, soft carbonation, slightly veiled, broken cap remains, ok retention, spotty lacing.
Aroma: citrus hops, gooseberries, floral, wheat, herbal, fruity (apples, slightly tropical).
Mouthfeel: Medium body, hop bitterness, off dry finish, slick,
Flavour: citrus hops, unbalanced, slight gooseberries, tart berries
Overall:
Review: 99
Dec 26, 2019Appearance: pale gold, half finger, off white, soft carbonation, slightly veiled, broken cap remains, ok retention, spotty lacing.
Aroma: citrus hops, gooseberries, floral, wheat, herbal, fruity (apples, slightly tropical).
Mouthfeel: Medium body, hop bitterness, off dry finish, slick,
Flavour: citrus hops, unbalanced, slight gooseberries, tart berries
Overall:
Review: 99
Reviewed by Jtee from Canada (ON)
3.44/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.44/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
From a 330ml bottle served straight from the fridge at 8 degrees Celsius into a white wine glass. Best before date: 08/2018.
Look: The beer pours a brilliant deep gold with 2cm of puffy, white head that dissipates into a craggy cap within 2+ minutes. Exceptional lacing and mediocre retention.
Smell: Medium-light strength and sweet. The nose is dominated by a berry-like fruitiness and some floral notes. Digging deeper there's a faint, generic metallic minerality along with pale malts, and subtle yeastiness. The aroma is quite nice and pleasantly delicate, but it lacks some punch (yes, delicate can still have punch).
Taste: Follows the aroma with moderate strength and good balance. Same notes as the nose – fruity and floral with bready-toasty pale malts. Low to moderate bitterness with a slight adjunct quality. The finish is short and quite balanced with faint intensity.
Feel: Medium body with moderate carbonation. Crisp with a relatively dry finish. No apparent alcohol warmth or astringency.
Overall: Williams Brother's Grozet is balanced and blessed with good looks but it falls short in terms of aroma and flavour. My main issue with this beer is that I have to dig really deep in order to find something to say about it. Visually-speaking it's stunning but otherwise sort of underwhelming. There's an adjunct-quality that really comes through in the finish that also bothers me slightly. It's certainly different and for that reason I say it's worth a try. If I had to choose between their Fraoch and this, I'd go with the former.
Dec 04, 2017Look: The beer pours a brilliant deep gold with 2cm of puffy, white head that dissipates into a craggy cap within 2+ minutes. Exceptional lacing and mediocre retention.
Smell: Medium-light strength and sweet. The nose is dominated by a berry-like fruitiness and some floral notes. Digging deeper there's a faint, generic metallic minerality along with pale malts, and subtle yeastiness. The aroma is quite nice and pleasantly delicate, but it lacks some punch (yes, delicate can still have punch).
Taste: Follows the aroma with moderate strength and good balance. Same notes as the nose – fruity and floral with bready-toasty pale malts. Low to moderate bitterness with a slight adjunct quality. The finish is short and quite balanced with faint intensity.
Feel: Medium body with moderate carbonation. Crisp with a relatively dry finish. No apparent alcohol warmth or astringency.
Overall: Williams Brother's Grozet is balanced and blessed with good looks but it falls short in terms of aroma and flavour. My main issue with this beer is that I have to dig really deep in order to find something to say about it. Visually-speaking it's stunning but otherwise sort of underwhelming. There's an adjunct-quality that really comes through in the finish that also bothers me slightly. It's certainly different and for that reason I say it's worth a try. If I had to choose between their Fraoch and this, I'd go with the former.
Reviewed by VoxRationis from New York
2.89/5 rDev -18.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.89/5 rDev -18.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Decanted into conical pint.
A: Pours the amber side of golden, minimal head.
S: Little nose, mostly light malts and hay. Didn't detect the fruit.
T: Some gooseberry evident; perhaps a little peat. Little bitterness, more of an herbal taste/aftertaste.
M: Light bodied, not particularly effervescent.
O: Really underwhelmed.
Jun 07, 2017A: Pours the amber side of golden, minimal head.
S: Little nose, mostly light malts and hay. Didn't detect the fruit.
T: Some gooseberry evident; perhaps a little peat. Little bitterness, more of an herbal taste/aftertaste.
M: Light bodied, not particularly effervescent.
O: Really underwhelmed.
Reviewed by Hanglow from Scotland
3.52/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours clear gold, small head
Light floral, sweet aroma. some ripe fruit there
Herbal flavour, some gooseberry coming through. Slightly medicinal. Herbal bitterness. I think there's good reason hops became the brewers bittering weapon of choice over bog myrtle. It is thankfully light here though, typical Williams Bros deft touch
It's an interesting beer but not really one I'd want to go back to
Apr 27, 2017Light floral, sweet aroma. some ripe fruit there
Herbal flavour, some gooseberry coming through. Slightly medicinal. Herbal bitterness. I think there's good reason hops became the brewers bittering weapon of choice over bog myrtle. It is thankfully light here though, typical Williams Bros deft touch
It's an interesting beer but not really one I'd want to go back to
Reviewed by puck1225 from Texas
3.4/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.4/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
An interesting beer. Poured into a chalice from a bottle. Virtually no head and very light lacing. It poured a pleasant pinkish gold color and was a bit cloudy. Distinct berry fruit smell and taste. The taste improved with warming. Interesting herbal flavors emerged. Probably not one I would buy a lot, but happy to have tried it.
Jan 01, 2016
Grozet from Williams Brothers Brewing Company
Beer rating:
80 out of
100 with
469 ratings
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