3.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
[Cask at Charlie's Bar] The aroma is slightly fruity. The color is orange and it has a small lasting head. The flavor is malty sweet with notes of fruit and hops. It has a great bitter ending turning dry on the tongue. The mouthfeel is very smooth. Definatly one of the best bitters I've had.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask. Amber colour with a small slightly off-white head. Aroma is bready and grainy malts along with some floral and grassy notes. Flavour is bready and grainy malts, some slight toffee as well as some floral and grassy hops. Stereotype bitter.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask. Dark copper colour. Quite fruity, a bit like a soft drink, but of course less sweet. Nutty aftertaste. Typical bitter, OK for sessions, but not too interesting.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
UPDATED: SEP 23, 2004 (Cask Conditioned) Pale yellow bitter with a medium head. Okay bitter....
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
[Cask conditioned] Pale yellow/orange in colour. Thin white head. A little fruity aroma and hints of malt. Malty flavor with some fruity finish. Smooth and easy drinking.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@Cayo Arms, Cardiff.
Light copper brown color, small white head. Strong aroma of honey in the nose. A bit watery, crisp, earthy (not fresh cask?), malty-nutty flavor.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: OCT 29, 2009 1. Cask Handpump at the Railway Inn, Altrincham 09/06/2001
Sweet on the palate with some pale aroma. Malt finish.
2. Cask Handpump at the Riverside, Weaverham 29/11/2002
Amber golden coloured and sweet on the palate. Malty aroma. Slightly dry finish.
3. Cask Handpump at the Riverside, Weaverham 14/03/2003
Amber golden coloured and slightly dry. Creamy lasting malt hop finish.
4. Cask Handpump at the Tappers Harker, Long Eaton 23/09/2005
Amber golden coloured with a fruity aroma. Crisp slightly bitter malt finish.
5. Cask Handpump at the Queen Victoria, Llandudno 05/05/2008
Malt aroma. Small white head. Golden amber coloured smooth on the palate and a little fruity with a crisp and slightly dry malt finish.
6. Cask Handpump at the New Tavern, Scarborough 07/02/2009
Malt aroma. Creamy head. Copper coloured and smooth on the palate with lots of pale malt. A little bitterness and wheat flavour in a crisp and creamy nutty malt finish.
1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Cask Conditioned at The Exchange, Banbury. Pale brown beer with thick head. Over smooth mostly bland beer, a boiled leaf flavour comes through, almost cabbage like.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Clear dark golden pour with practically no head. A notably weak, cerealic and rather vegetal, grainy bitter with little minerality nor yeast character and rather underdeveloped toasted malt softness.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Handpump Worcester City FC every season since 1988. This has been one of those regular beers that I’ve had that have never got around to rating. A copper coloured malty beer with medium frothy head smooth very easy drinking and around those parts and further north into the heart of the West Midlands this beer is worshipped. I lived in Hooky country before 8-9 years in Worcester, I’ve moved back to this area Banks Bitter is fine but it’s not a patch on a proper beer, like the aforementioned Hooky.
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