2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
[500ml bottle-conditioned from Millets Farm Shop, Frilford, Oxfordshire] Amber, slight white head, moderate fizz. Bland, sweet, cardboardy malt with some biscuit and a little bitterness in the aftertaste. Would probably make a reasonable session ale in cask, but doesn’t really work in the bottle. c6
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml bottle. Clear orangey amber colour with thin white head. Aroma has mandarin, caramel, dried fruit with a note of cooked eggs. Taste is almost as neutral as water, holds just a slight sweetness. Intensity has only a lasting bitter finish.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle 500ml. @ chriso.
Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dried fruit. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, caramel, shoe polish - smoke notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110501]
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle (thanks to fonefan), drunk on 1 May 2011. Amber colour. Moderate off-white head. Excellent condition. Slightly orangey aroma. Also citrus in the flavour - more lemon than orange here. Clean on the palate. Perfectly drinkable but not very exciting. Standard bitters rarely seem that impressive when bottled. Flagged for re-rate from cask.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at home ... copper ... thin white head ... sweet fruity toffee malt ... light smokey roast malt ... little toffee malt ... juicy frutis ... little plum ... a decent but unexciting bitter.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On gravity at Swindon Beer Festival, 29/10/09. Amber with next to no head. Savoury, biscuit malts, some fruit and a decent bitter finish. Ok.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask Stillage at the Memorial Hall, Northwich Beer Festival 19/09/2008
Some fruit aroma. Amber mid brown coloured with some alcohol present. Slightly bitter and earthy dry finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask, Gravity at Banbury Beer Festival, Oxon, 08-05-09 Pours amber with thin white head. Aroma was a bit malty and plain. Taste was also malty but there was a hoppiness detected, not overly bitter or sweet even. Could have done with a little more hops. I sort of drank this and quickly forgot about it. A6 A4 F6 P3 Ov11 3.0
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at The Woolpack, Banbury Beer Fest ’08. Gold amber with white head. This didn’t clear until the Saturday of the festival, it is a light, thinnish beer with an underlying mushroomy, tea like flavour in a malty bitter. There is an orange tasting hop note on the finish, but the whole thing doesn’t quite feel like the complete article.
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