3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.
Clear medium orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, fruity, light hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average duration, soapy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110427]
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at The Village Freehouse, Salisbury. A golden beer with a thin white head. The aroma has notes of crisp malt and a bit of citrus fruits. The flavor is sweet with notes malt, citrus hops, and hay, leading to a bitter finish. The body is light.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask. Orangeish golden colour with a small foamy white head. Aroma is fruity, mildly malty, some slight dough and mild nectary notes as well. Flavour is fruity and floral with some bready and biscuity maltyness. Ends floral and mildly bitter.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask gravity at GBBF 2010. Pale gold, thin beige head. Touch of hop and yeast on aroma. Golden light and perfectly ok. Bit of nettle. OK.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at The Anchor, Birmingham. Pale gold with white head. As KnutAlbert says, a good session beer, eggy, sulphery notes, quite fruity and rounded and really fairly tasty. I liked it.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at Reading Beer Festival on 27 April 2011. Clear gold colour. Biscuity aroma. More of a traditional feel than vibrant aromatic hops. Clean and quite refreshing but a little uninspiring. A respectable, straightforward quaffer.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned handpump Volunteer Ventnor. A golden beer with a white head and lacing. Pleasant light citrus notes in the aroma. Drinkable beer but bog standard in the mouth where the hops are more muted. Safe.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpump at GBBF, Trade Day 03-08-10 Pours pale gold with white bubbling head. This is quite a shock after all of those US hoppy beers in that its back to the wonderful simpleness of a UK cask beer. There is a soft sweetness, some citrus on the nose and in the mouth, easy going and jolly tasty. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, Leicester 2011. Dusted yellow, white skim. Lime squirted on biscuit aroma. Slightly bilious orange, vegetable hints, cashew finish. Not great.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask gravity at Pigs Ear 2008.
Smooth, drinkable, but there is nothing extra here to make it truly fine. A good session beer.
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