3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest ’10. Gold with white head. This is a slightly sweet and fruity beer with a gentle rose hip type note before an orange like hop, subtle then bitter. There was a sudden rush on it when it’s charm became known. Another beer damaged at GBBF?
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
6th August 2009
GBBF. Cask. Clear gold beer. Light dry palate. Some sweet fruit here. Pineapple, mango and other generic fruits. Finishes crispy with more fruit and with a little hop bitterness. Liked this - just a tad dry.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Golden with a loose foam. Fat honey cereals and very little hopping throughout. Sessionable but uninteresting.
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
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at peterborough beer fest 2009. Alround rating: Pale honey malt, fairly floral and lemon off the hop, lacking bitterness in the finish, but still alright.
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.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Great British Beer Festival Day 2, August 2009. Another workmanlike gold-coloured ale. No particularly striking features. Some slightly sweet notes. Distinctly fruity. Quite pale in colour but drinks more like a bitter than a golden ale.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Hand pulled at the Hawne Tavern, Halesowen. Dark yellow, mit cream head. Thick, slightly muddy golden. Some wet cardboard and damp dog. Perhaps some burnt hair. Plain and not great.
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.
2.8 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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