3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) @ Hillsborough Hotel, Sheffield, Bedfordshire England S3 8GG.
On RateBeer Sheffield "Valley of beer" Crawl 2008. Clear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, caramel, moderate hoppy flowers, grass, notes of toffee, butter. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (260708)
1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Cask at The Vale Inn, Bollington. Dark amber, thin big bubbled off white head. This one bad condition maybe? I suspect it could have been, nearly everything I had here was a bit dodgy. Wasn’t impressed. Very watery and smelled like a gents toilet. Sorry, certainly not for me.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask on the Sheffield, on RateBeer Valley of Beer Crawl ’08 ...light copper,sweet malty and little hop, sweet resiny hops;
2.6 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Swim Inn (JDW), Sheffield. A pale somewhat smudgy ale of little interest or character.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned - handpump - Out Of The Vaults, Leicester. A copper coloured beer with off-white bubbles for a head. All I can say is that the liberty hop must be pretty ordinary as this beer is the poorest I’ve had from this usually very reliable brewery. Very ordinary hops in the nose and mouth which linger in a watery background. The merest hint of orange fruit. It’s drinkable, hence overall score but it’s very disappointing.
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