3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is floral, grassy and mild fruity notes along with wood and some mild nectar. Flavour is grassy, fruity, floral, bready and a bit caramelly notes as well. Pleasant and refreshing golden ale.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.
Clear medium amber orange colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dark pale malt, light hoppy, citrus, orange - citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, caramel, spicy anis seed. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110430]
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pint at the Royal Oak in Bracknell. Golden beer with a flat head. Tastes a bit lagerish, but also has a bitterness to it that adds to the flavour, and a hint of fruit. One dimensional but also quite nice. Smells fruity but bitter, fairly easy to detect aroma. Almost tastes wrong but still right as its plain but enjoyable. I went back for a second pint so I must like it!
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Foresters, Church Crookham. Pours a bright orange colour with a good size head. The aroma is citrus, the taste is all grapefruit that leads to a sharp dry finish. This is not a session beer.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Odiham and Greywell Cricket Club. Golden/amber appearance. Surprising full bodied and rich with a sort of grassy aroma. Not a massive amount going on, but very drinkable nevertheless.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Monks Retreat (JDW), Reading. Bright gold with a dense cream head; faint citrus aroma; sweet and grainy with a light citrus flavour; a touch of grapefruit to finish. Rather heavily bodied for the style, but very light on flavour. Disappointing.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Standing Order JDW, Southampton) - Amber in colour. Malty, grainy and slightly dusty aroma with hints of toffee. Moderately bitter taste with apricot and toffee detected.
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