3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.
Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, nutty sour notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (070808)
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
[Cask at GBBF 2005] A hazy brown beer with no head. The aroma is nutty with light notes of alcohol. The flavor is slightly sour with notes of metal and nuts, but the body is thin.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@GBBF2008. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is yeast, some dough, wood and also some mild wooden notes. Flavour is wood, yeast, some mild licorice as well as mild herbal notes.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Clear amber with tiny white head. Sweet aroma with caramel notes. Sweet flavor with caramel and hoppy notes. Ends bitter.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask handpull at Wetherspoons, Folkestone.
Dark copper colour with thin beige head. Earthy citric hop and muddy in mouth. Citric finish has nettle hop. Alright, no great shakes, earthy best bitter
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask @ GBBF 2006. Dark amber colour with an off-white head. Fruity slightly floral aroma with some hints of apple. Fruity malty flavor with some hints of apple. Malty aftertaste.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Handpump at Wetherspoons Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester 10/11/2002
Amber mid brown in colour with some alcohol content. Plenty of malt and some dryness in the finish.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at The Golden Cross, Cirencester. Red brown beer with a rich malty character, the beer is slightly too sweet for my taste and the hop bitterness is just a little too thin to compensate.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Mid amber colour. Nutty malt dominates the aroma and palate, but with a good ration of balancing hop bite. The bitterness consolidates on the finish. Rather good and definitely better than I was expecting. Silk Tork's earlier rating rather highlights the problems with rating decent cask and dodgy canned versions of the same beer side by side. Handpump, Head of Steam, Euston, London NW1.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at the Talbot, Swinford Toll bridge, Enysham, Oxon, 03-11-07 leg three of the Thames Tipple. Dark amber with a small white head, poured far too cold unfortunately so aroma difficult to detect initially. Malty and quite sweet but reasonable fruitiness as well, not great but makes a change from the sea of GK beers on offer today.
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