Badger Toads Croak (Cask)

Brewed by Badger (Hall & Woodhouse)
Style: Bitter
Blandford Forum, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at The Railway in Putney during "Spoons Fest in a Day" crawl, 2nd Nov 08. Standard bitter appearance and weight. Good dryness and a slightly fruity flavour.

First tasted this in The Esquire House in November 2008. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear tawny in colour with a thin white head. Toffee aroma is very very weak. Digestive malt in the mouth with a dry vinous raisin fruit evident. Hop resins give a strong bitter flavour in the aftertaste. This continues into the dry hoppy finish with the malt posted missing in action. Poor effort, not worth seeking out.

6th November 2008. Clear amber beer. Well balanced although malt just dominates the hop. Not too dry, mild bitterness. Serviceable.

Cask Handpump at the Penny Black JDW, Northwich 31/10/2008 Some floral aroma. Small white head. Copper coloured and malty with a crisp and dry lasting full malt finish.

Cask @ Penderel’s Oak, JDW. Holborn WC1. Pours a clear amber color wit a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with some hoppy citrus hints. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus finish with some hints of caramel.

Cask at The Standing Order, Edinburgh 13 Nov 08. Golden colored. A small tanned head. Sweet fruity aroma. Watery flavor but some malt. No bitterness.

cask at JDW edinburgh...copper ... light sweet malt ... dry metalic hop ... medium bitterness.. dry linger.

Cask, The Last Plantagenet, Leicester. Amber brown with an off-white head. Aromas are light toffee malts with hints of sulphur and some spices. Flavours are dry, light weetabix malts with berry fruit. Has a decent dry finish but overall not much going on.

Cask in the cross keys and the new crown. Alround rating: Appley sweetness, caramel, skunky grassy hop. Not enjoyable at all.