3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask@Burton Summer Beer Festival, 2008. Golden beer with a crisp dry aroma, and a bitter, dry and grassy hopped flavour. Overall a nice well hopped beer.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
7th August 2009
GBBF. Cask. Pale gold beer with a slight haze. Light dry palate. Nice floral sweet hops but let down by some sulphur.
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.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pale with a white foam. Lightly hopped with a dusty barnyard nose. Cereal and truly English style hopping in the mouth with a mid-length linger. Light and watery.
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.
2.4 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]
2.8 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.
3.2 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.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Cask at GBBF, London Earl’s Court, 5 Aug 2009) Golden yellow colour with frothy, off-white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with notes of citrus, grass and pineapple. Fruity taste with grass, citrus, tropical fruit and a decent, citrussy bitternes in the finish. Rather light body with some sweetenss. Fresh citrussy hop character. Nice and refreshing.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at GBBF on 8th August 2009. Gold with lasting white head. Fruit aroma then boldly hoppy. Delicate fruit notes also seek the limelight in the imbiber’s mouth. Dry crisp finish; pleasant, with a smooth texture.
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.
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