Ascot On The Rails

Brewed by Ascot
Style: Bitter
Camberley, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask conditioned - gravity dispense Wellington Birmingham A black beer with a nice off white coloured head. The aroam has both roasty notes and plenty of citrus. Almost certainly some US hops In here whih are especially good in the mouth. A good balance of the expected mild notes together with citrus. Tasty.

On gravity at Swindon BF 30/10/08. Mahogany with a slight, off-white head. Aroma of caramel, grassy hops and barnyard earthiness. Flavour was complex, with some sweet malts, fruit and tonnes of floral and grassy hops. Would agree that this tasted like a hoppy mild. Great, original stuff.

A Mes rate: gravicask at Twickenham beer festival.
dark chestnut brown with a slight off white collar. Straw and hay in the aroma with a bit of manure with some good dark malt, lots of earthy character and some good bitter hops. Glorious flavour. Damn this is lovely stuff. Like a mild with lots of hops and a pleasing hint of barnyard. Really really drinkable. Bloody excellent.

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.

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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 (gravity dispense from stillage) at Battersea Beer Festival on 13 February 2009. Rather an odd beer. Or perhaps I should say unusual as the word "odd" can convey negative connotations and that is not my intention. Dark brown colour. Chocolate and roast malt in the aroma profile but there are flowery, slightly grassy hop elements too (US hops). More of the same on the palate where a hoppy, tangy bitterness is quite prominent. Initially, I assumed this was going to be a mild but there is far too much hop presence for that. Mouthfeel is light, bordering on thin. Some might say this is a beer with an identity crisis. I’d rather just say it is difficult to classify (who really cares anyway?). Unusual indeed, yet strangely appealing.

Gravity at Swindon Beerex08. Murky brown. hay nose. Defies expectation with dry, hoppy spices to contrast the high swetness.

Cask (Guide Dog, Southampton) - Dark brown in colour. Roasted malt aroma with hints of dried fruit, chocolate and caramel. The taste is roasted and malty with some hoppy hints and caramel notes.

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