2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at The Penny Black, JDW, Bicester, 11-11-07 Poured reddy brown with large white foamy head, aroma lacking somewhat first taste was quite sweet and malty and then everything goes downhill a bit, not that exciting probably a little past its best (not the breweries fault) very average.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
16th November 2007
Warning! Early amateur rating! Spoons Winter Fest. Robust ale with bitter malt. Good enough.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Handpump at Tennent’s Bar, Partick 03/12/2007
Floral aroma. Small white head. Bronze amber coloured and fruity with a crisp and dry slightly bitter full malt finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull at Wetherspoons, Folkestone. Coming to the end of the barrel apparently. Reddy brown with beige head. Relatively fruity aroma, some brown sugar flavour in mouth. Fruity, sweetish bitter. Faint tingly hop on end. Malts are nice and so is the fullish mouthfeel.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A Mes rate: Cask at the Volunteer.
Rich amber colour with a decent off white head and plenty of lace. Fruit, tobacco and raisins are the scores on the doors with a slightly bitter finish and a delicate caramel sweetness. Run of the mill...
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ The Bear, Camberwell. Copper colour with smallish head. Aroma is fruity / malty / nutty caramel. Taste starts poorly but gets better with a nice bitter / spiciness / some fruits. Hoppy and dry in the finish. Decent beer, worth a try.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at ’Spoons, Milton Keynes, Wetherspoons Festival ’07. Copper with a small white head. Fresh, sweet malty and fruity taste with biscuity background. Some bitterness. A pleasant, uncomplicated sessioner.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask, Last Plantagenet, Leicester. Red brown with a small head. Aromas are toffee and caramel with nuttiness and some spices. Quite light. Flavours are nutty, hoppy and spicy with toffee and pear. Dry and hoppy on the finish. OK.
1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 7/20
Cask conditioned @ Standing Order (JDW), Soton. Excessively toffeish and sweet malts with a cloying but watery body.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Counting house at wetherspoon beer fest. Aroma givces a plesnt wiff of sulphur and nutty mlats but with a fliural citrus twist. Taste is similar a little grainy but well balanced and v drinkable.
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