3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(Cask at GBBF, London Earl’s Court, 5 Aug 2009) Golden colour with brief, white head. Fruity, malty nose with peaches, citrus and a touch of soap. Fruity, malty taste with notes of citrus, tropical fruit and a balanced citrussy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, slightly sweetish. Decent.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@GBBF2009. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is acidic fruits along with some flowery notes. Flavour is wooden, rather sweet malts and also has a bit grassy and bready notes.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask@GBBF 2009.
Golden color, small white head. Cut fresh wood, harsh aroma. Par to flavor. Some perry, wood, hops. A bit sweet and dull.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at GBBF 05-08-09 Pours warm gold with a thin white rim of bubbles ofr a head. There is a gradual bitterness with this one, and also a touch of shoe polish (kiwi brand) detected on the nose. The hops area a little rough, but despite what appears as quite a critical review it was absolutely fine. A6 A4 F6 P3 Ov13 3.2
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
The Oddfellows In The Boat, Somerhill, Staffs. Bright gold collared with nitro slickness. Nose neat sulphur, boiled eggs bobbing in lemon barley squash. slick and heavy with oak-like alcohol, vanilla, almost condensed milk oat sweetness, straw, last minute bitterness right on the end. Milky soft and fizzless. Very Black Country/Church End. Gentle grassy hops as it warms, more of that lemon barley, alcoholic almond and marzipan flatness. SNATCHY. Sulphur right through it. Not sure.
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