2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, sewage, light hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and acrid bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090805]
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@GBBF2009. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is wood, mild yeastylike notes, fruits and some hints of vanilla. Flavour is sweet floral hops along with earth and mild wood. Quite boring bitter.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Cask, 4.5% at GBBF08. Hazy yellow colour. Small stable head. No aroma, but quite good flavour. The flavour has a nice rough fruitiness, good flavour hops, slightly fruity. Good mouthfeel.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ GBBF 2009. Pours a pale yellow golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with hitns of citrus. Fruity malty hoppy bitter flavor with some hints of citrus. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter finish.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask@GBBF 2009.
Pale yellow color, small white head, some lace. Sticky "toilet hoppy" aroma, some green apples. Harsh, lime-vegetably hoppy flavor. This tastes a bit like some Czech pilsners. Not very likeable.
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2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask Stillage at the Intake Club, Mansfield 12/04/2008
Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured and a little hazy in appearance. Some citrus hop flavour. Crisp and slightly bitter malt finish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
yellow with a small white head. Aroma of grain and grass, with some sulphur. Same flavour notes, medium bitter.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A Mes rate: gravicask at Ealing Beer Festival.
Light golden brown colour with a slight haze and a reasonable head. A standard but very balanced and well made bitter. Good grassy hops, good earthy malt... you know the drill. Dry bitter finish is just right. Good stuff.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) at the Victoria, Lincoln, April 2008. Rather similar to the Spire Whiter Shade of Pale that I tried just before. Not, perhaps, surprising as both have a proportion of wheat in the mash. More surprising that they both exhibited a strong lemon character when this one uses cascade and the Spire specifically excluded grapefruit hops. The end results were similar - clean, sharp and hoppy but a little short of complexity.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, The Salmon, Leicester. Hazy gold with a bubbly foam. Aromas are toast and sharp lemon with yeast and wheat. Green apple with hints of lime. Flavours are crisp and grassy with base wheat and biscuit malts. Peppery with grapefruit bitterness and some woody, herbal notes. Has a bit of lime on the edge. Peppery on the palate. Refreshing.
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