2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, light to moderate hoppy, light to moderate yeasty, horse stable, peat - rubber. Flavor is moderate sweet and biter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (060808)
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
CFask@GBBF2008. Golden colour, small beige head. Aroma is mild wood, some yeast and mild notes of spices. flavour is blue cheese, some hops and yeast. Also some mild herbal notes.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ GBBF 2008. Pours a pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty slightly hoppy aroma. Fruity malty hoppy bitter flavor. Has a malty hoppy bitter finish with some hints of citrus.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Dark golden with a lasting white head. Arom a of grassy hops and caramel. Dry and malty flavour with a hint of smoke.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Gold with white head. A pretty restrained, low impact beer, some hop note, quite malty, some fruit, hard to tell in a Spoons what its meant to be. Average.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A Mes rate: gravicask at GBBF.
Clean gold with a vanishing white head. Rather eggy and dull. Faint spice and yeast with some reasonable floral and citric hops in the finish.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at St Albans Beer Festival, September 2006. Pale gold colour. A bit hazy. Nasty aroma - eggy, with an unbrewed, worty character. Something wrong here - either the beer or the condition. Tastes a bit better, but not great. Dry and rather cleaner than the aroma.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask@St Albans BF. Lots of sulfur in the aroma, full on egg-fart. . Palate is thin, acidic, thin and grainy. watery finish. Not very good.
2 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask, third pint, early on a Thursday afternoon at GBBF 08. Pours a slightly unclear amber body with a thin, bubbly tophead. Notes of cowshed in aroma followed by a more or less decent grass-hoppy taste. Medium bodied (07.08.2008).
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Cask at GBBF, London, 6 Aug 2008) Pale amber colour with brief, white head. Fruity, malty nose with notes of orange and apricots. Fruity, malty taste with biscuity malt, apricots and orange. Well balanced and refreshing, not really exciting though.
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