Ascot On The Rails

Brewed by Ascot
Style: Bitter
Camberley, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask conditioned at The Kings Arms, Stoborough, Dorset. Muddy brown with no head. Poor, poor condition, ropey maltiness with a little dryness. Sorry but I paid good money for this so I deserve my say even though the pub is at fault.

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.

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.

Nicely balanced, pleasant session beer. It’s fairly bitter but a bit too thin a palate to make this a beer to write home about.

(Cask at Bree Louise, Euston, London, 8 Aug 2010) Dark brown colour with brief, beige head. Malty, roasted taste with coffee, dark fruit and toasty malt. Roasted, malty taste with notes of dark bread, prunes, raisins, coffee and a mild bitterness in a fairly dry finish. Rather light body. Decent bitter.