3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned at The Old Silk Mill, Derby. Amber with white head. Heady, hoppy fresh tasting beer with a bitterseet edge. Good zesty, slightly spicy notes from the hop on a mid bodied maltiness. Very Pleasant.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Cloisters. Pale amber, medium white head. Hint of musty grass, some light peachy fruit nose. Sweet and bready upfront, a light lingering lemony finish. Not bad, bit sweet.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Cloisters. Pours a golden colour with a fair white head. Musty lemon aroma with some honey and barley. A grassy, herbal flavour with musty honey, peppery hops, lemon again and bready yeast. Quite dry finish. OK.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask-conditioned at the Staffordshire Beer festival, Seven Stars, Bristol 6/10/10. Deep gold with a slight, off-white head. Apricot and peach aroma, with caramel and floral hops. Flavour had more fruit, a suggestion of honey and decent, bitter finish. Fine.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pints and halves, cask gravity, 2nd Bulkington Beer Festival. Tarnished gold with no head. Fresh musky citrus, slight urea, jammy apricot, peach and lychee aroma. All that plus mango, sweet red apple Englishness, walnut, white grape, oats and custard. Big lovely bag of fruit and biscuits basically, balancing out with some serious hop and nuthusk afters. Tip-top crushed biscuit freshness, despite having been cooked in this sweltering armpit of a festival venue for 3 days. Superlative sessions, unafraid of giving you a smack in the mouth.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask gravity at Ealing BF 2009. Gold, thin bubbly beige head. Yeasty, it’s a bitter, not a bad bitter actually, quite a decent bitter.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A Mes rate. Gravicask at Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. Golden brown with a thin white head. Decent fruity malt aroma with lots of wholemeal bread. Good fruity hop flavour with with some really good tropical fruit notes. An assertive bitter finish and some very late bready malt rounds ot off well. It’s a boarderline 8 to be honest. Good beer and well made. Maybe I scored it a bit low...
2.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at The Hillsborough Hotel, Sheffield, ’The Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire’ on the Valley of Beer Day 16-08-08 Pours warm gold in colour with a thin rim of white bubbles. Tangy, light fruity tasting beer with a good bite. The nose is not great with a hint of sourness detected which at first suggested to me that this beer might not be in tip top condition but looks and flavour would suggest that its ok, which would conclude to me that the beer is just merely alright, could do better as many of my school reports quite accurately implored of me.
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