B & T Midsummer Ale

Brewed by B & T
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Shefford, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Clear golden with tiny white head. Sweet aroma with sulphurious and fruity notes. Flavor likewise with a sourish end.

First tasted this at the Mossend Beer Festival, Lochwinnoch in July 1994. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear straw in colour with a thin white head. Strong floral hop aroma. Thin mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a citric note of lemons and lime cordial. Strong note of floral hop resins flood the aftertaste. This continues into the dry citric finish. An ok summer session golden ale.

Cask conditioned handpump Malt Shovel Northampton. A light golden beer with a white head and good lacing. There is diacetyl in the aroma amidst a little lemony hop. Light and fruity hopping. A touch of sweetness. Low key.

On cask at the 26th Annual Folk Festival in Ely. A light golden ale with a thin white head. Aroma of caramel and spicy hops. Tastes of caramel, quite yeasty with some late fruity hops. Pepper finish. OK.

UPDATED: JUL 31, 2009 Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Pale gold with a small white head. Very sweet floor polish aroma. Then some citric hop. Very sour citric taste, really not very nice. A little biscuit but not enough. No bitterness to speak of. My daughter thought it was ’drinkable’. Enough said. A rare shocker from B & T. 31.7.09 Same location. Wheaty aroma this time. Plain and sour. Slight dryness. Not quite as bad as I remember. Rated: 4,3,5,3,9:2.4

Cask@The Edgar Wallace, London. Yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is vegetables, some rubber and mild fruityness. Flavour is fruity and herbal and also has some vegetables along with dough.

Blackfriers. Aroma is floural hop, hints of grass and pale malt. Taste is similar a touch of grainy malts, grassy and a small hint of bitterness in the finish, but generally balanced.