3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (Live&Let Live, Cambridge)
7 Passion fruit and nectarine aroma, a touch of mandarin.
4 Rich orange, ring head.
7 Full fruity ester retronasals. Masses of sweet malts, but no sugariness per se.
4- Full palate, soft carbonation. A touch sticky, but it’s so full you want it to feel thick. Fades to grains.
14 Great full-bodied bitter. Grainy finish is very long.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
On cask at the Ely Winter Beer Festival, 2012. Pours a golden colour with a thin white head. Aroma of caramel, yeast and alcohol. Similar flavours with mild carbonation and a little grass also.
3.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JAN 6, 2008 Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Dark gold with a small, tight white head. Fruity aroma and sour fruit taste. Some sweet maltiness too. Mid bitterness. Very nice.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Amber gold with white soapy head. Full hoppy beer with a fruity orange flavour. Yeasty and bready with an underlying sweetness and alcohol note. OK
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask handpull at Folkestone Wetherspoons. Copper colour with lasting bubbly off white head. Alcohol makes this fuller bodied than a standard bitter. Good strong bitter, plenty of bitter hop finish. Yeast, hop aroma, toffee malt in mouth and then really great bitter finish.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle conditioned. amber/orange with a white head. Aromas are sour apple with hints of sweet toffee. Flavours are also fruity and sour. Some dryness on the finish. I suspect that the bottling process has tainted this beer slightly.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
From A Bottle.Chestnut amber in colour with a big head,aroma is of hops and apples,
taste is of sour fruit and hops with a dry bitter finish.
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