3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a lacing white head. Aroma is grassy and slight citrusy hops aroma. Fruity, mild peachy and slight citrusy hops flavoured. Bitter and dry into a crisp hoppy finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Cask at Market Porter, Borough, London, 26 Nov) Amber colour with small head. Fruity nose with notes of orange, apricots, hops and a balanced malty background. Fruity taste with mandarin, orange and apricots. A bit sweetish, but with a fairly nice bitterness in the finish. Easy drinking, but not really exciting.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: JUL 24, 2007 Cask (handpump), Market Porter, Southwark. Carnivals in Somerset are a big thing - unbelievably some of the biggest in the world. In Bridgwater, for instance, there are often crowds of up to 150,000 - over four times the population of the town itself. So I guess this beer, from a small village in Somerset, is brewed to celebrate that time of year. Whether its produced annually, or is a special for this year only I don’t know as Berrow beers are pretty tough to find and rarely travel far from home. This is an amber coloured beer with a bit more alcohol than an average bitter, although it could not really be described as one of those darker, maltier strong bitters, nor is it a golden ale. There’s a fair amount of tropical fruit in here, and its a quite soft and easy drinking beer, although not short of flavour. It is, however, rather sweet and if its going down that route it could do with a touch more hoppy bitterness to provide balance. Without that I found it rather underwhelming.
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