3.7 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Nose is fresh and clean with notes of fruit. Palish gold, weak head. Flavour is very dry going in and rounds out well leaving a strong but not overpowering bitter finish. Thirstquenching and moreish, and the best I’ve had from this brewery.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: APR 24, 2006 Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Clear golden. Orangey nose with estery peach and marmelade. Sweet with firm, rounded mouthfeel. Sugary, lightly fruity and very hoppy with intense resiny bitter finish. Very flavourful and solid.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at the New Century Hall, Manchester 21/01/2006
Golden and hoppy with a floral aroma. Poured lively. Crisp and bitter on the palate with a slightly creamy finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at the Olde Dolphin Innn summer beer festival, Derby. Good chunky gold beer, lemon lashings with a grapefruit surge at the end.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask, Birmingham Fest 05. Golden with a bubbly head. Aromas are caramel malts with sweet pine and grapefruit and some addicitve saltiness. Flavours are sweet malts followed by lots of sweet lemon. Pretty fruity with grapefruit bitterness towards the finish. Quite smooth on the palate until more bitternes comes through. Has pleasant alcohol on the aftertaste. A very good beer.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask@Birimingham Beer Festival. Pale/golden beer with a lightly sweet aroma and a dry flavour. Overall a nice dry beer.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Beer No 24 on the Wilsons’ Road Trip 2005. Cask at The Hop Pole, Bath. Golden with grapefruity hop aroma. Good body with a long bitter finish. Excellent.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask @ Kings Head, Bayswater, London: Golden coloured. Unclear. Dense white head. Fruity and very herbal nose with a light spiced touch. Flavour is hoppy, fruity, berbal and very fresh. Is dry and clean and has a very bitter end, that last long. Really good one.
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