Banks’s Sunbeam (2011)

Formerly brewed at Banks’s (Marstons plc)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Wolverhampton, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask @ GBBF 2011. Pours a clear golden yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grassy hoppy aroma. Sweetish malty fruity hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy finish.

Cask at the GBBF 2011. Pale golden with a small white head. Aroma of hay and grass, apple peel and pear. Sweetish grassy and herbal flavour with a nice bitter finish

Cask at the Union, Kingswinford. Pours yellow gold with a medium head. Aroma is pineapple and citrus hops. Tastehas a sweet floral start and a floral and citrus hop finish.

On tap at the Meadow, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. Pours golden with not much bubbles and a decent head, some of which hangs around. The nose has honey and malt. The taste has grapefruit, malt and honey. The palate has a medium body and texture and almost, but not quite, a clean finish. Overall, a decent session ale, quite fruity but there’s an undesirable malt overhang on the finish which grows as the pint goes down.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, moderate hoppy, citrus, grass, fruity, soap. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110802]

Cask at GBBF 2011, Wednesday. Clear golden - white head. Herbal, grassy, pot, hashish, light malty, ok bitterness, citrus, flowery, light bread. Plain.

Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours clear golden with no head. Citrussy, floral and bready. Medium and smooth body. Dry end.

Cask@GBBF2011. Yellow colour, mediumsized creamy white head. Aroma is bready, grainy, wooden, earthy and slightly toasted. Flavour is fruits, wood, earth and some mild grassy and grainy notes.

From cask. Pours cloudy yellow with a small, white and creamy head. Aroma is mild citrusy and crisp hoppy. Bitter, citrusy and crisp hoppy. Ends dry and crisp hoppy bitter.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Clear golden coloured with a small white head. Fruity aroma of grass and hops. Fruity flavour of grass, citrus and hops. Dry hoppy finish.