3 Rivers Hilary Gold

Formerly brewed at 3 Rivers
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Stockport, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Cask Handpump at NWAF New Century Hall, Manchester 21/01/2006 Fruity aroma. Golden coloured with a fruity grapefruit flavour. Smooth and slightly creamy on the palate with a hint of dryness in a bitter malt finish.

Cask at the Monks Retreat (JDW), Reading at 4.3% ABV. Brilliant gold colour with a thin trace of white head; grapefruit aroma; tropical fruit cocktail flavour, with nothing really standing out; but a distinct grapefruit bitterness to finish.

Cask at The Crosse Keys (JDW) London EC3 5 Feb 08. Golden colored. A small fluffy head that lasted. Problems finding any aroma. Flavor of grapefruit. Dry sourish bitter aftertaste. Quite ordinary.

Cask (handpump) @ The National Winter Ales Festival 2008, Manchester, UK. Clear medium orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light malty, roasted, light to moderate hoppy, flowers, grass, lemon. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (180108)

Cask handpull at Pembury Tavern, London. Gold, no head. A fairly citrusy standard bitter. Some nice white stone fruits. Pretty good.

Cask @ The Pembury. Golden with no head. Malt and floral hops in the aroma. Taste is much the same, predominantly hops with some underlying malt flavour in the end.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at The Pembury
Pale golden brown with no head. Nice bready malt / grassy hop aroma. Fruity flavour with a lovely dusty hop finish with good length that eventually leaves a malty aftertaste. Very drinkable.

A light golden, hoppy beer brewed first for the CAMRA National Winter Ales Festival in Manchester January 2006. Subsequently reduced in strenghth to 4.5%.