Belhaven 70 Shilling (Cask)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Bitter
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Serve in English pint

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Cask - I think it was at Three Judges, Glasgow. A golden beer with a thick creamy beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with light notes of caramel, and so is the flavor, leading to a boring very lightly bitter finish. The mouthfeel is creamy.

Cask by gravity at Paisley Beer Festival (25 Apr 12) - clear amber ale, bubbly white head, grainy malt, malty, bit smoky, nutty, hint of fruit, refreshing, not really bitter or sweet

First tasted this at the Brigg Inn, Barrhead in September 1982. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear amber in colour with a thick creamy white head. Slight hint of tea leaves in the short earthy aroma. Soapy mouthfeel and good lacing. Weak pale malt base gives a slight biscuit note which fades fast. Strong hop presence with dusty resins giving a rather more English bitter bite to proceedings. The finish is bitter sweet edging on the bitter side. An ok session ale but very hard to find now.

Cask, gravity, at St Neots Beer Festival ’11. Amber with a small white head. The faintest of malt aromas with a hint of boiled carrot. Taste is pleasant enough, but at this stage of the festival, I find it hard to put it into words. Malt, I suppose, but not as we know it. Some bitterness. Just about acceptable.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, fruity, light caramel and roasted malt, sour malt notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, light light acidic and light to modrate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100805]

Cask @ GBBF 2010. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel flavor with citrus hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy finish.

Cask@GBBF2010. Amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is tomatosauce, some spices and mild earthy notes. Flavour is very much the same. Dry and quite bitter.

Cask (GBBF2010)
6 Simple mashy aroma
3 Orange, small head.
6 Simple mashy taste.
3 Soft palate, carbonation low. Finish is light grains
14 Sounds dull, but it’s actually quite good - a very easy session.

From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity and slight caramelish. Bitter, mild citrusy and dry. Citrusy and orange fruity hops finish. Ends dry.

Cask Stillage at the RUFC, Macclesfield 08/05/2004 Amber mid brown coloured hoppy beer with a slightly wheaty lasting malt finish.

Cask edinburgh beer festival 07 ... ligth copper .. grassy hop nose ... verylight smokey and quite fruity... mellow malt.