Beowulf Beorma

Brewed by Beowulf
Style: Bitter
Brownhills, England

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.

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.

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...

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.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 3     Pale Yellow(1)->Dark brown(5) : 3     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 2   White(1)->Tan(5) : 2   Lasting: 2   Lacing : 1
Aroma:
Intensity : 2  
Yeast : 2   Bread : 1   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Soap : 2   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX Sulfur : XX  
Malt : 2   Biscuity : 2   Hay : XX   Toasty : 2   Caramel : 1   Nuts : XX   Honey : 3   Cereals : 2   Grainy : XX
Hops : 2   Noble(1)->American(5) : 1   Leafy : XX   Spicy : XX   Floral : XX   Lemon/Lime : XX   Grapefruit : XX   Orange : XX   Herbal : 2   Grassy : XX   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX  
Notes :   Peach/Apricot : 2   Earth : 2   Mint : XX   Butterscotch : 3   Smoke : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2   Sourness : XX   Bitterness : 2   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2   Clean : XX   Sharp : XX   Watery : XX   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : 2   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : 3   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : 3

Comments: Quite mineral, soapy ale with a rather metallic ending.

Cask @ Market Porter, Borough, London. Pours a clear copper color with a small white head. Fruity citrus aroma with some malty hints. Sweet fruity and malty flavor with some hints of citrus. Malty fruity finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.

Cask (handpump) @ Market Porter, SE1, London. Clear medium to light yeloow orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, citrus, lemon, honey. Initial flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter, final flavor is moderate seet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is creamy, carbonation is flat.

Cask@Market Porter, Borough. Golden colour, thin white head. Aroma is nectary sweetness, some wooden hints and quite much fruits. Flavour is grass, nectar and some wooden hints. Aftertaste is mainly wooden and quite bitterish.