Ascot On The Rails

Brewed by Ascot
Style: Bitter
Camberley, England

Serve in English pint

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Gravity dispense at the 1st Runnymede Beer Festival - 08/09/12. Dark chestnut brown resembling still cola in appearance. A thin off-white head soon thins to nothing. Toffee, caramel, licquorice and a little roast malts on the nose. Tastes of roasted malts, chocolate and nuts. Medium bodied with very little carbonation lending to a bitter dry finish.

Cask at the Row Barge, Guildford. Poured a dark mahogany with a minimal frothy head, but lots of lace. A hint of maltiness in the aroma leading to a citrus peppery bitterness in the flavour. Quite an unusual beer and well worth tasting. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Reasonable if unremarkable dark ale. Easy drinking, but not much more to add.

Cask at Ascot Festival 2011. Poured a dark brown with a thin white head. Plenty of citrus in the aroma, which leads to a caramel and malty taste.

UPDATED: OCT 15, 2011
Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.

Clear dark brown colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, chocolate, light hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, citrus pine, dark malt, chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110430]
7-3-7-3-14

Cask (handpump) @ White Horse on Parsons Green, 1-3 Parsons Green, London, Greater London England SW6 4UL.

Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, ash. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110805]
6-3-6-3-13

Cask (White Horse, RBESG2011 Friday)
Rich roasty aroma. Rich roasty body. Delicate hopping brightens it up a bit. Alas I got a hint of kidney in this, which ain’t good. However, the band was great, and I got to show off proper headbanging to a bunch of gormless yuppies for whom the 70s was they read about in history books. Which gave me a great buzz, and made me very thirsty, so I loved a glug of this when I had the change. At least I can put the nearly falling over down to being an insane rattlehead rather than being drunk.

Cask. Amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is mildly toasted, quite bitter floral notes as well as some slight spicy notes. Flavour is mild toasted malts, some slight smoked notes along with pine and some spruce. Quite floral bitter and mildly nutty notes in the aftertaste.

Cask at White Horse. Clear dark brown coloured with a small beige head. Fruity and light roasted aroma of hay and caramel. Fruity and light roasted flavour of hay and caramel. Light roasted finish.

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From cask. Pours dark brown with a small off-white to brown head. Aroma is roasted malty and slight breadish. Bitter, roasted malty and breadish. Dry and roasted into a dry and malty finish. Ends bitter and dry.