3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from The Wine Cellars, Lutterworth. Burnished with a slim white collar. Perfumed hop aroma hinting at pineapple jelly and violets over a pale attractively nutty malt base. Clean and slightly soapy with a good tangy interplay of hops, yeast, malt. Flowery with an earthy background and bitter kick to finish. Good. And earns a double bonus point for the correctly punctuated label.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask, Blackfriars, Inverness. Murkyish amber looks with a minimal white head. Some vague fruit and hop in the nose and flavour but too much diacetyl spoiled things totally for me. Poor, uninspiring beer.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Half pint, cask at my pilgrimage to Leslie’s Bar. Nitro creamy, white head blanketing the glass. Copper coloured body. Smell of malty sweetness and mild fruits. Malt-fruity taste with weight on hop resin. Fine bitter end on the swallow. Not watered in anyway (Edinburgh, 28.11.2010).
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at Toridon YHA. Pours a clear golden with a white head. Mellow sweetness and a little dryness. Fruity hops aromas. Hints of caramel malts. Medium bodied. Medium carbonation. Dry hippy finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask @ The State. Light copper colour, short white head. Aroma is caramel malts, a bit of hops. Flavour is initially hoppy, lemonade, sweet fruits, then dry biscuit malts. Watery finish.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle from Hogs Back Brewery shop. Pours a golden yellow colour with a thin white head. Real skunky aroma, the taste is sweet with a salty citrus mouthfeel, with a dry finish. Very disappointed by this beer,
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A Mes rate: cask at the Three Judges, Glasgow.
Clean golden with a thin Persil white head. Creamy and wheaty malt aroma with light citric notes. Bland-ish flavour that is simialr to the nose. Just not quite enough hop for me.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at halfway house edinburgh ... Golden orange ... ligth caramel nose ... sweet fruity little orange hop ... soft hopleading to nice fruity finisg.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap: coloured like honey, small persistent head, moderate sulphury and hoppy nose, some malt in the background, underpinned by a discreet fruitiness; moderate bitter flavour, light bodied; green apples in the bitter aftertaste. O.K., spicy and pleasant..........
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Side by side with a half-pint of Houston Killelan. This was slightly darker, but still a golden beer with moderate-sized bubbles. Dustry, dry, slightly like old tobacco leaves. Underlying fruitiness, with a vegetal, grassy edge, and a wholly controlled bitterness, as if it would come out if it could but the beer isn’t letting it. Typical palate of the style. Almost a hint of a peanut butter flavor to it at some level.... (cask hand-pull at Three Judges, Glasgow)
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