AllGates Hasty Knoll

Formerly brewed at AllGates
Style: Bitter
Wigan, England

Serve in English pint

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[CASK: The Friendship Inn, Fallowfield, Manchester 10/01/07] Nothing spectacular here. A very middle range ale with nothing special to rave about. Pretty boring and average really.

Cask at NWAF 2009. A hazy golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, flowers, and hops, leading to a dry and slightly bitter finish. The body is light.

Cask @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel flavor with some bitter hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.

Cask at Thurrock Beer Festival. Clear golden with a small head. Good fruity, sharp apple-ish hop nose. Decent bitterness, good apples flavours, especially towards the finish. I quite liked this blondie.

Cask (gravity) @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester, England.
Clear medium orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, fruity, marzipan notes, chlor. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is light medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090123]

UPDATED: SEP 2, 2007 cask @ 2nd pembury fest. Sorely unimpressed with this one. Golden with small white head. Smell of fruit and hops. Tastes like mineral water with a hint of hops. No thanks!

Cask gravity at Pembury Tavern BF March 2007. Copper coloured with thin disappearing head. Minerally, goodish, bitterish bitter. some stoneish minerality, some decent hop on end. Well balanced bitter.

A Mes rate: Stillage at the Pembury Tavern. Golden colour with a fairly impressive head considering. Almost German in its wheatiness. Quite clear in both the aroma and flavour. Other than that its straight down the line with some faint citric hop notes and a malty finish.

Cask conditioned - handpump - Gateway Leicester. A golden coloured beer with a sparkled creamy white head and a lot of lacing. The aroma is hard to discern through the unnecessary head, but there’s nothing unpleasant. The taste has some citricity but it’s fairly ordinary and safe. Not particulalry impressed.

Cask Stillage at the Victoria Leisure Centre, Nottingham 20/10/2006 Fruit aroma. Golden coloured fruity and slightly sweet on the palate. Crisp and creamy malt finish.