3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at The Plume of Feathers in Greenwich. Pours amber with a creamy off-white head. Light malty aroma. With a little fruit. Med body. Flavor is light roasty malt and moderate floral bitter. Finishes with building bitter. Nice.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
May 2012 - Had draught recently in London, mild, hoppy. Fine but not very exciting and probably wouldn’t have again.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Poured an amber/light brown with a small off white head. Aroma of citrus and floral hops. Medium body, flavour of sweet fruit and bitter hops.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
On cask @ the Haymarket Bar, Edinburgh. Light amber in colour with a decent head. The nose has a little bit of apple coming through against a malt background. The taste is similar - fairly basic bitter really but inoffensive. The palate is light to medium in body and texture and the finish is fairly clean. So so!
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask,hand pulled at The Rocklands Club,Redditch 23rd january.Poured an amber gold colour with diminishing off white head.Aromas of citrus.Flavour of caramel in this easy to drink beer which is quite refreshing and tasty for such a low gravity drink,that said,ones enough i’m back on the Bathams bitter now!
3.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at The Vaults, Knowle, Solihull. Golden Brown Pour with a big white frothy head and surprisingly little lace. Malty slightly metallic aroma. There’s malt and caramel in the slightly sour flavour with a little liqourice in the aftertaste. Not much bitterness it has to be said, but a very decent refreshing ale, more suited to the summer months.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask in Kings Head, Clapham. Chestnut clear brown, white bubbley head. Nose is button snatch sulphur, bready grainy malt. Taste is caramel malt, bit flat. Not at its best.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
On cask at the White Hart, Pirbright, Surrey on Xmas Day 2011 (badged as ’Jolly’).
Light amber in colour with a thin head and little lacing as I began to drink.
Slight citrus and some straw flavours in this beer, bitter with a more bitter aftertaste.
Mouthfeel very average, a little thin.
The kind of pint you’re happy to finish and move on to something different, that said not unpleasant to the extent I’d never have again, it would be low down the list though!
Didn’t make me jolly!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at Baxter’s Court, JDW, London. Pours rich gold with a creamy, off-white head. Woody malt nose with faint leaves. Nice flavor, decently balanced with toasty pale malts, some dry wood and dry, toasty grass bitters. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Crisp finish, moderately sweet with some nice, toasted bread, mild woody and lightly grassy bitterness. A solid bitter in general.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
I had it under the name Eat, Drink, and Be Jolly at the Piccadilly pub in Manchester. Light amber gold with a simple off-whie lasting head. Smells of malt, caramel, light hop citrus and orange. Nice flowery smell. Medium oily body. Sweet fruity peach malt start with a simple dry hop bitter finish. Common enough light bitter.
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