2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle; pale yellow, meagre white head; aroma is vanilla, oddly similar to their iBeer; the flavour has the same woody/leafy off character too; on the plus side, there’s plenty of hops and a fairly aggressive bitter finish; of the three beers I picked up from Oddbins sadly only the Monkey IPA gets a thumbs-up from me.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, The Criterion, Leicester. Golden with a white head. Aromas are apple and oranges with light pine and biscuit malts. Dusty yeast with floral notes and hints of blackberry. Flavours are leafy and dry with woody notes and light pithy grapefruit. Biscuit with some sweet lemon. Quite peppeey on the finish. Decent.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask,hand pulled at Waggon & Horses,Halesowen.31st march.Clear golden pour with a medium sized white head.Citrus nose and taste in this easy drinking light session ale.Hoppy finish.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@GBBF2012. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, eggy, grassy and some mild floral notes with mild toffee as well. Flavour is fruity, floral, wooden and grassy with some mild toffeeish notes. Flavour is fruity, floral and grassy with some mild sulphur.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Hand pulled at Waggon and Horses, Halesowen. Thin, gold, no head. Pleasant leafy quality. Pretty dry. A little grape on tongue and berry on finish.
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.
Unclear light to medium to dark amber yellow orange colour with a small to average to large, frothy - fizzy, good - fair lacing, mostly lasting - diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, light to moderate hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110430]
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity) - Norwich Beer Festival 2011. Poured a clear, light golden with a loose & fluffy, lasting, medium sized white head atop. Zesty lemon & lime charactertistics, some hints of grapefruit too, particularly on the palate. Quite crisp, fresh & juicy. Lightish but firm body, slightly spritzy mouthfeel finishing with a lingering dryish bitterness.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask, gravity, at the Pig ’n’ Falcon, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, in the Bank Holiday Extravaganza Beer Festival ’11. Gold with a small white head. Grainy aroma of dusty barns and crushed egg-boxes. Taste has slight grainy sweetness and masses of cardboard. I found this interesting if not an unqualified hit.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Gravity cask at the Bree Louise. Clearish yellow with no head. Urine and hay on the nose. Light sweet flavor, some floral notes, grass, more pee. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Fairly dry finish, some straw hoppiness, light honey malts. Just alright.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks, 11.04.11 Pours gold with a bubbly white head. Crisp bitterness in the mouth, furriness across the roof of the mouth, touch pithy with citrus showing quite well, nice. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
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