3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned at The Masons Arms, Marylebone, London. Red brown beer with off white head. A fuller flavoured winter brew for a change, fruity and warming with a touch of hazelnut flavour around. Malty rich but unfortunately a little cloying sweetness too. Still reasonable beer in a very nice pub, good stuff.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at black rabbit. Smells of roasr., hops and grain. Taste is rather bland yet flavorful. Not bad
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ Penderel’s Oak, Holborn, London, England WC1V.
Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, caramel, burnt caramel. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20081230]
2.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Handpulled cask at JDW Baker Street. Mid brown with an off white head. A real malt monster. I found this sweet and cloying for a mid strength beer. It was the wrong choice to wash down my excellent spoons vindaloo.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Mid brown copper pint, taste is fruity, earthy and quite sweet, a little spice, mild finish. Decent enough.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at St Stephens, Westminster.
Id classify this as a winter warmer. Full of rich malty goodness.
Christmas pudding dark and dried fruit.
Some bitter hoppiness in the tail balances it quite well.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Peacocks Farm, Bracknell. Dark chestnut with an off-white head; fruity apple aroma; nutty malt flavour; prolonged hoppy bitter finish. Nice, but not outstanding.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at The White Hart, Overton- Copper/amber coloured. A slightly floral and spicy aroma with a fruity taste with raisins and a hint of Christmas pudding being detected.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask/GBBF. Dark copper beer with a small white head. Perfumed fruity aroma, figs among other things. Sweet and fruity flavour.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Medium creamy offwhite lasting head with a coarse surface. Amber body. Sweet fruity aroma with floral hop notes, quite rich. Sweet mild earthy stale fruity taste with tea notes. Flat, and a bit off. Dry musty wooden malty aftertaste. Tastes like it’s not entirely right; should rerate. (0.5pt cask at the Prince Edward.)
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