Bath Summer’s Hare

Brewed by Bath
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Bristol, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask at GBBF. Golden with a small white head. Aroma of grain and bread with strong diacetyl. Sweet malty flavour with diacetyl

Cask, handpump @ The Grove, Exmouth, Devon. Nice pub off the beach, nice beer, gigantic seagulls!! Faintly misty in the glass, sunny amber body with a mostly lasting, loose pad of white donning it. Piercing nose reminiscent of damp weeds, camphor, stinging nettles and vine clippings with a hint of lemon and chamomile. The hops hit first in the mouth, bold, very peppery and herbal like dry herbs with the chamomile showing. Moderately bitter, the aroma comes through as it drops off very dry. In fact it is very dry in general. Draws on the saliva making it parching yet extremely refreshing. Just enough citrus in there for flavour, straw-like pale grains across the mid-palate show more and more. The body light, almost delicate and it yielded a slightly spritzy residual carbonation that made it bounce. I like this one, perfect for the Summer that Devon offered up, 4 seasons in one day! Nice stuff.

Cask Conditioned at The Royal Oak, Porlock, Somerset. Gold with white head. Light, lagery type of beer, some lemony notes, flowey, with a thinnish malt. Short on the palate, but still drinkable.

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

Clear medium orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, hay, pale malt, toffee, butter, light to light moderate hoppy, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long to average duration, toffee, grass, butter - toffee notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110804]

Decent if somewhat generic summery golden ale - some hop character and a citrus hint. Nice enough session beer.

Cask at GBBF 2011, Wednesday. Clear golden - white head. Diacetyl, fruity, berrie notes, nutty, butterscotch, knækbrød, fatness.... sour !!!

From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is toasted malty and light hoppy. Bitter, light butterish and sweet malty. Dry and bitter into a medium dry finish.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Clear golden coloured with a small white head. Fruity aroma of caramel and butterscotsch. Fruity flavour of hops, caramel and butterscotsch. Hoppy finish.

Cask. A dark golden beer with a thin lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of flowery hops and fruits on a lightly malty background. The flavor is sweet with notes of fruit and diacethyl, on a crisp malty background, leading to a quite bitter finish.

12th July 2011
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Slightly hazy gold beer. Good off white head. Light dry palate. Some buttery sweetness - must be diacetyl - mild though! Dry pale malt. Reasonable orange hop with a trace of lemon. Dry finish. Ok.