AllGates California

Brewed by AllGates
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Wigan, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Guest at the Friendship, Fallowfield. Pale golden colour with lasting white head. Very attractive to look at. Aroma was hoppy citrus (possibly Challenger) and a malty sweetness. Strong grapefruit flavour with a slight sweetness leading to a decent bitter finish. The lightness of the palate makes it an ideal summer beer.

On cask at Odiham and Greywell Cricket Club. Poured a light golden colour with a pleasant hoppy aroma. Distinct lemon, citrus overtones with a well balanced sweetness. Overall a very pleasing beer indeed, crisp, refreshing, light and packed with flavour. Very good light session ale, perfect for in the summer months I would imagine.

A Mes rate. Gravicask at the Junction Tavern.
Clean pale gold. No head what so ever. Way to go Junction. First day and already the beers are struggling. Laughable. Excellent bright crisp hoppy nose. Really fruity and floral. Almost identical in the flavour. Just a little thin and whimpish in the finish. Could do with just a touch more body and certainly some bittering hops. Just a touch mind. Other than that, a glorious summer session ale. Great stuff.

Cask at Ealing beer festival 2010. A golden/straw coloured pour with a smallish white head. Hoppy/citrus fruit/herbal aroma. Tastes hoppy, grapefruit, dry, crisp. Bags of flavour in a low alcohol ale, I really enjoyed this and could drink it all evening.

Cask@GBBF2011. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is bread, floral notes, some fruity and nutty notes with mild honey and some maltyness as well. Flavour is rather much the same in a pleasant balance.

Cask gravity, Nottingham 09. Phew. Back in the quality tent again. Headless pale yellow with a 3mm halo. Measured it. Arresting fresh aroma of pig’s arse, nettles, cat piss, barnyard. Big sting of lean lemony hop follows. Afters creamy, corn-like and evocative of Pickled Onion Monster Munch, although I’m pretty sure they’re not an ingredient. Lemony, fresh, punching. Allusions of elderflower, if you’re looking. Pigshit and flowers. Just got a weakness for this kind of lean, hopped up Lancastrian/Yorkshire pale ale. Must be my heritage. Vanilla and crushed cashews to ease the hop pill down. Winner, amongst a marquee of them.

Cask conditioned at Minehead Beer Fest ’11. Pale gold with white head. Quite light in the body, there is a biscuity malt note than a good pleasant sweetish lemon hop note. It finishes fairly bitter. More complex than expected. Nice beer.

Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 10, National Winter Ales Festival, The Venue, Sheridan Suite, Manchester, England.

Clear medium yellow color with a small, fizzy to frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, lemon. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100120]

Cask at the Manchester Winter Ales Festival. Clear pale gold with next to no head. My mate loves this kind of stuff and this is certainly one of the better hoppy English ales. Crisp and hoppy, mild bitterness. Easy to drink, be nice in summer instead of freezing my arse off here.

Cask gravity at Oxford Beer Festival, 15-10-09 Pours gold in colour with white head. The aroma is really quite unusual touch rustic. I certainly get the cats piss that the previous rater mentions. Nice sweet grapefruit in the mouth the bitterness comes through but its kept in check by a nice sweety maltiness. Pleasant beer that was quite popular at this end of the bar. A5 A4 F7 P4 Ov14 3.4