3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
The Crown, Nuneaton. Stillish and lemony with a squirt of shampoo hop bitterness. Long, intense, digestive biscuity afters. Wet straw and hutch. Tasty but not enough hop bite.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, gravity, at Wellington Arms, Bedford, in ’4th’ Wellington Beer Festival ’ 10 (Though I can remember several more than three previous festivals at this location). Gold with a small white head. Sweet hair oil malt aroma. Sweet burnt cereal taste, rather interesting. Mid bitter finish. Pretty good.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@Melton Beer Festival, 2010. Golden beer with a lightly hopped aroma and a fairly dry and hopped flavour. Overall a reasonable golden bitterly hopped beer.
2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Pours a straw blond. slight lemon/cream/sweet aroma. light-thin beer finishing with a slight dry, peppery hop flavour.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A Mes rate:
Cask at Bruxellensis. Who woulda thunk it? British cask in Brussels. Not even close to good condition unfortunately. Nice gold colour, no head. Dry bitter nose and flavour. Wheat and straw in the finish. Totally standard but still, I enjoyed the novelty.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask B.C.H.; golden, clear beer. UK hops, the best, discreet but refined, if not very assertive. A bit musty taste, old hops flavour, strangely, but not oxydized. But worse, there’s nowt after that... Aptly light. Not very special Bitter.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (gravity dispense), Battersea Beer Festival. Pale gold colour. Light, lemony aroma. Dry and clean, but hardly aromatic or fruity. An easy-drinking quaffer. Don’t expect too much depth of flavour but does the job well enough.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@Battersea Beer Festival. Some sweet malt and then a citric lemon/lime acidity, nothing fancy, but not too bad.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned, gravity at Battersea Beer Festival 2006. Copper/golden with bubbly white head. Citrusy bitter. Herby/ginger hop. Malt is a little thin but the spicey hop finish is nice. Anyone fancy having a sip from my Belvoir?
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pale quaffing ale. Good starter pint for a festival. A little thin perhaps but the hops bites wins through in the end.
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