Batemans Excalibur

Formerly brewed at Batemans
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Skegness, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask, Maidstone. Another in the increasingly popular Golden style of ales. Typically this has a wheat content - the head foamed up like a soft whip ice cream, and the nose has elements of wheat. The nose is the best part of this rather insipid drink. Lemon, wheat, lily-of-the-valley, rancid bacon fat, raw meat, a butcher's slab, and sweet vomit were among the aromas I picked up. Hugely complex and intriguing nose - though not always pleasant. The colour is of hazy, unpolished brass - and was not inviting. The body and taste is extremely light - somewhat watery, though there is some yellow melon taste. Not impressed.

Tasted this in The Esquire House, Glasgow (JDW) in October 2001. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear amber in colour with a thin white head. Fruit note of fresh green apple in the short aroma. Thin mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a sharp citric note of lime and grapefruit. Strong hop presence with booming lemony notes from the resins in the long aftertaste. Finish is bitter sweet and quite similar to TT Landlord. A good session blond ale.

Cockney Pub, Aarhus, DK. On tap. Golden with small white head. Aroma of malt and red fruit. Flavor well balanced of malt, fruit and hop bitterness

1. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich (JDW) 04/11/2001 Golden coloured and pale. Bitter hop finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich 19/04/2003 Golden colour slightly strong in alcohol. Sour banana flavours. Some bitterness in a hop finish.