2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask at GBBF 2005
Again another brewery that I expect to have a good beer from but on this occasion I was disappointed. Pale gold, eggy nose with some hay/hop. Thin in mouth with thin quicly disappearing hoppy dry finish
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: OCT 15, 2006 Cask Handpump at the Helter Skelter, Frodsham 27/08/2001
ABV was 3.7% at the time of sampling.
Straw golden coloured ale with citrus hops which last right through to the finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ GBBF 2005: Golden coloured. Hazy. Fluffy off white head. Fruit, horseblanket and sweetness in the aroma. flavour of fruit and herbs. Is quite fresh and crisp. Light bitter and fruity in the end.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump), GBBF, August 2005. Golden, clean and grassy. The hops are herbaceous rather than floral. Odd how this beer divided opinions. I go down the middle. Entirely fit for the purpose but, with so many similar beers at the festival, this didn’t make any overwhelming impression (good or bad) on my tastebuds. I’d drink this again happily but wouldn’t actively seek it out.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned - handpump - GBBF 2005. A bright golden coloured beer with a good citrus hop aroma. The taste has some good hoppiness but the malts taste a little past it. Not fresh enough for me.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Grapefruit citrus hops, with cereal malts and sulfur in the nose. Hazy golden body with low, white, large-bubbled head that recedes to ring. Lightly malty flavour with fair balancing bitterness has some citrus and sulfurous notes. Medium-light body with low carbonation. Cask at GBBF 2005.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at Fox and Crown, Nottingham. Gold with a large white head. Spicy hop aroma. Some citrus in the taste. Mid bitter finish. Not a bad beer, better than the other two Alcazar offerings I tried today, but it didn’t quite have the freshness you look for in a summer golden.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap at GBBF 05. Yellow, no head. Nice aroma of juicy hops. Pretty good taste - juicy hops again, with a lemon tartness and a soured cardboard, errr sourness. Doesn’t taste very window (incidentally).
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Half pint pulled at the Great British Beer Festival, a clear straw yellow and thin head. Aroma is fruity hops, but different. A flowery flavour, smooth in the mouth with a nice amount of bitterness.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask (GBBF): Eggy fart aroma. Big fruits too. Gold with no head. Lacks body and taste. Not very good. Strange that I didnt like this and others did?
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