3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2007, London. Clear medium orange color with a small, fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, flowers, pine, grapefruit, light malty, roasted. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at GBBF 2007. A dark golden beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel and grassy hops, as well as light notes of alcohol. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel as well as light notes of alcohol, leading to a slightly bitter finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@GBBF2007. Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is hops, earth and some hints of fruits. Flavour is nice, a lot of caramel, nectar wood and fruity hops. Slight acidicness as well.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at the Victoria, Rugby 17/03/2007
Hoppy and citrus aromas. Clear golden coloured strong in alcohol and hoppy. Some dryness in a crisp and bitter finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Yellow with a small white head. Grass and fruit in the nose. Pungent bitter flavour and quite dry.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at St Albans Beer Festival 2006. 5.0% according to the festival programme, 5.2% on the brewery website. Definitely golden, with a light haze, but not particularly aromatic for the style. Not hard to establish what the hops used are from the commercial description, but the Cascade doesn’t make a huge impression. There’s certainly some spicy hop character, but its not dominant. There’s a quite grainy impression and plenty of body to offset the hops. The mouthfeel is clean and mellow. Overall, a pleasant and well-tempered beer.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: AUG 12, 2007 Cask conditioned - handpump - Victoria Rugby. A golden coloured beer with a whitish head and lacing. The aroma is well balanced with good citric hop flavours and nice malts. The taste is the same and the extra body provided by the alcohol is more than welcome. A nice tasty beer with a good long finish. (7,3,8,4,15(3.7))
Re-rate at GBBF2007
Again nice and hoppy. Citrus fruitiness. Subtle and flavoursome. Not as good as the first time but I wouldn’t expect it to be. (8,3,7,3,14(3.5))
Average score given.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Clear golden pour wearing an initial white head that rapidly diminishes. Brightly, strongly hopped ale trying to live up to its name. Very dry, floral, orangey and even grapefruity aromas. The light grassiness feels more English already, so does the growing sunflower seed and sesame, cerealic sweet maltiness that we find in mouth. Mostly an aromatic hop bill. Well-balanced and with a grip. Light-bodied, fitting carbonation.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask@St Albans BF. pale gold colour. Nice dusty, earthy flavours and mouthfeel, with some green, bitter, earthy hops notes. Finish is leafy and citric. Quite nice.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask, The Crown, Nuneaton. Ripe hop citrus rounded with oaty biscuit. Deep gold with faint haze. Sulphur and citrus aroma with a rub of musty hopleaf. Billowing and lovely. Approaching something very good indeed.
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