 omhper (10437), Stockholm, Sweden
Oct 1, 2006 Updated: Nov 22, 2006[Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival] Clear pale amber. Sulphury vegetable nose. Medium sweet with clean mouthfeel and notes of herbs and nutmeg. No bitterness. Not good.
oh6gdx (5857), Vaasa, Finland
Oct 3, 2006 Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is hoppy, flowery and quite sweetish. Flavour is grassy malts with hoppy hints. Watery.
duff (5404), Sydney, Australia, Surrey, England
Oct 1, 2007 Bottle. Pretty bad.Weedy aroma, palate is thiin, metallic, with some sort of lactic sweetness. Feels very stale in the aroma and on the palate, very stale as well. NOt good at all.
harrisoni (5121), Ashford, Kent, England
Nov 19, 2005 500ml bottle from Morrisons. Copper colour with lasting off white head. Yeasty and citric hop nose with some sweet caramel. Soft in mouth, bit of candy sugar, some more caramel and more citrus hop on the end with some lemon and yeast. The hops are quite zesty. Certainly better than the cask version I had.
chris_o (4405), London, Greater London, England
Dec 4, 2006 500ml bottle from Tesco. Golden amber colour. Quite a blast of resinous hops here - seemed rather more pronounced than the cask version I’d tried before. Perhaps the extra alcohol also contributes to giving the bottled version more punch. The US hops do come through but, on the nose, its more tropical fruit, peaches and pear drop sweets than floral character, although the aroma is not hugely pronounced. More hops on the palate, with orange zest coming through strongly. Sharp, spicy and a little acidic on the finish. Some might find the lack of balancing malt off-putting but I thought it was a decent, assertive, thirst-quencher.
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