3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Ascot Festival 2011. Pours a light brown colour with a good hint of red hue. Plenty of hops in the aroma, the taste was fruity with plenty of grapefruit, with a dry bitter finish. Need to try this one again.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask-conditioned at Bucks and Berks Beeriodical, Seven Stars, Bristol May 2012. Deep amber with a slight, off-white head. Sweet, orange fruits, a touch of caramel and green herb edge, leading to a hoppy, dry finish. Good.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest ’12. Reddy amber with white head. Full malty body, some chocolate malt with hints of caramel, good depth carrying a cocktail of hop notes, quite juicy fruity, pineapple and grapefruit. Really pretty decent and my beer of the final day of the Festival, so it lasted well.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
6th December 2011
Cask at Pigs Ear. Clear gold beer, little white head. Light dry palate. Okay hops, very mild marmalade. Light dry finish. Okay.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Pig’s Ear beer festival 2011 last December. An amber/red coloured pour with a small white head on top. Tastes quite hoppy, citrus fruit, slightly bitter. Reasonably good IPA but not mind blowing.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask gravity at pigs ear 2011. red ipa 5.5%. coper slight haze. Aroma like an ipa with loads of hops all over this. An amber ale i guess. sweetish hoppiesh decent. 3.6
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Pig’s Ear Beer Festival, London. Hazy amber. Sweaty hop aroma. Mid sweet with medium body and well rounded mouthfeel. Gentle depite a wealth of sweaty citric hops. Long bitter finish.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@Pigs Ear Beer Festival 2011. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is wooden, slightly herbal and mild caramelly notes. Flavour is fruity, floral, herbal and quite caramel malty sweet as well.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Wallington 2011 Beer Festival. It pours deep amber-red, with a thin beige head. The nose is resin, oily hop, light cheese, grapefruit and pine. The taste is pine, resin, oily raw hop, grapefruit, floral, touch of varnish and light alcohol warmth, with a decent warming bitter finish. Medium body, soft carbonation and slightly oily mouth-feel. Flavoursome.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Wallington and Croydon BF, London. Pours a clear, dark amber-red with a white head. Modest pine hop nose. Very resinous, bitter flavor. Lots of raw hops, light toasty malts. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sticky finish, tons of lingering pine, light grass, some toasty malts and sugar. Yeah, raw.
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