2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (handpump) @ The New Oxford, 11 Bexley Sq, Salford, Manchester, England M3 6DB.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, fruity, moderate to light heavy ginger and soap. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy ginger bitter with a average duration, and a peppery - ginger sweet finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090715]
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at GBBF 2007. A hazy golden beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with light notes of grass. The flavor is sweet malty with light notes of grass.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@GBBF2007. Yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is ginger, diacetyl, spicy along with some hops and malts. Flavour is ginger, caramel and some fruits.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask gravity at Pembury Tavern BF March 2007. Ginger, spice aroma. Gold colour with no head. I like ginger beers. This isn’t biscuity but more root ginger. I like it, and Duff is wrong. Nice spicey finish. It’s a very good ginger beer. Quite earthy stem ginger throughout.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ GBBF 2007. Pours a plae yellow color with a large white head. Fruity malty and spicy ginger aroma. Fruity anf malty spicy flavor with hints of ginger. Fruity finish with a spicy citrus aftertaste.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask Handpump at the Black Horse, Darwen 26/05/2007
Spicy aroma. Clear golden coloured and hoppy with citrus and ginger flavours. Slightly dry creamy finish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Yellow with a small white head. Spicy, herbal aroma with sage, mint and ginger. Dry and herbal flavour.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask conditioned at The Turf Tavern, Oxford. Gold with white head. Straight into a lemonade flavour initially ok but then an astringent ginger note and it really is heavy drinking, a struggle. Sweet and grainy, not a good combination of flavours.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A Sim rate (Gravity cask at the Pembury Tavern): Aroma is overpoweringly ginger - so much so that it’s a bit too much. Sweet and citric. Appearance is standard but a decent amber golden colour. Completely flat. Flavour is again ginger but with extra spices. Bit of a chai tea about it. Feel like this beer should accompany an nice Thai green curry.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at St Albans Beer Festival, September 2006. Golden colour with a slight haze. Rather similar to the same brewery’s Young Pretender which I sampled just before. Plenty of spicy, aromatic hop character on the nose. In taste, maybe a touch sweeter and less resinous than the Young Pretender, but there’s a developing bitterness on the finish, leading to an ever so slightly sour aftertaste. Still a quite hoppy beer. The mouthfeel is light, maybe a touch thin. Decent stuff.
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