Belhaven IPA (Cask)

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

Serve in English pint

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

Clear medium amber yellow colour with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, pale malt, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, apple notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110802]

[Cask at Volunteers Arms, GBBF 2004] An orange beer with a fine but disappearing head. The aroma is quite flowery hoppy. The flavor is sweet malty with a slight note of fruit and also only a slight bitter end. A boring IPA.

From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and mild citrusy. Fruity, citrusy and light herbal. Grassy and light citrusy. Light bitter and citrusy finish.

Cask@GBBF2011. Golden colour, small creamy white head. Aroma is bready, malty, wooden and quite herbal as well. Flavour is caramel, some bready malts, earth and some slight earthy notes as well.

Cask at GBBF 2011. Clear amber coloured with a small white ehad. Fruity aroma of grass and sulphur. Fruity flavour of grass, hops and sulphur. Hoppy finish.

Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours clear golden with a small white head. Straw, corn and barnyard. A bit thin. Short end.

Cask at GBBF 2011, Wednesday. Clear golden - white head. Fruity, tea, tobacco, herbal, nutty, bitterness, forrest hoppy, caramel, dark bread.

Cask at the GBBF. Golden with a small white head. Malty aroma with some grain, a grassy touch and a bit of diacetyl. Sweet grainy and grassy flavour