4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle that was brought over in a case along with our beer order for Merton Beer Festival, thanks to Marc Bartram Pours orangey amber with white foamy head. This tastes for all the world like a DIPA, furiously hoppy aroma with some stinging bitterness on first taste that sits at on the roof of the mouth towards the back. There is plenty of sweet/sour orange, maybe even an unripe mandarin. I wish that I’d have got a few of these it really is very, very good, the sweetness is there but I keep coming back to that hoppy bite and it reminds me in many ways of Downton Chimera IPA, quite lovely.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle condtioned. Murky brown with an off-white head. Aromas are chocolate, caramel, pear, pepper and sour fruit. Could be slightly tainted. Flavours are chocolate and sticky toffee with citrus fruit and some sourness. Dry on the finish. Lacks depth for a 9%er.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle conditioned, from Beer Cellar in Lincoln. Hazy amber gold, good fluffy white head and gentle fizz of condition. Initially spicy/fruity in the nose with a slight citrus edge, low alcohol and a suggestion of wild yeast. Full bodied, slightly oily and obviously alcoholic in the mouth with a gentle fruity tartness dominant, some dry yeasty bitterness and hints of tangerine and malt. Low citrus notes and yeast in the finish, with some dry bitterness developing and a final kick of retronasal alcohol.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Exploded out of the bottle so I only got to taste half of it. Didn’t really miss much-a golden brown strong bitter.Probably much nicer in cask form.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: OCT 25, 2005 Gravity At The Ipswich Winter Festival.Amber in colour,no head,good hoppy aroma,loads of soft summer fruits,alcohol was not that noticeable.I enjoyed this alot,amazing stuff.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask@Bedford BF. This is quite a beast, and a tasty one at that. Rich mouthfeel, flavours of apples and oranges. Alcohol shows, but its not a raw ugly alcohol, rather a warming, calming alcohol presence. A bit peppery, almost Belgian, just without the Belgian yeast character.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Wow, this is pretty amazing stuff. Pale orange colour. As maeib says, you’d never guess this was a British beer at all. Who said British brewers can’t experiment. Somewhere between a US strong ale, a Belgian Tripel and a Doppelbock in character. Massive hoppy aroma, but it doesn’t have any of the sticky sweetness that I sometimes get from US big hop beers. Fruit cocktail in the flavours - apples, tangerines, orange marmalade, lychees. And it has some bitterness and a sharp kick at the finish. Excellent. Cask (gravity dispense) at Bedford Beer Festival 2004.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned - Gravity Dispense - Bedford Beer Festival. A gorgeous full on hoppy aroma very American, orange fruit IIPA like. Orangey-brown coloured. The taste is wonderfully hoppy too with excellent alcohol notes. A truly lovely beer which we found very difficult to classify with all sorts of styles thrown into the ring. Really not very English though IMO.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Cask Conditioned at the Bedford Beer Festival 2004 (Wednesday Session). Cloudy brown. Manderin/tangerine, fruity, alcoholic. Wonderful.
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