3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Free half at The Crown. Pure gold with a heaped shaving foam top. Soft apricot grassiness aroma. Cream and honey malt, washy red apple, cream crackers, apricot. Light bitterness, low hop...but in its defence, bottom of the barrel.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
On cask at Cloisters. Pours a light golden colour with a thin white head. Aroma of green apples, musty yeast and caramel. Similar flavours with mild carbonation and an oily mouth-feel. Lingering lemon.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
[cask at Cloisters Bar, Edinburgh] Light golden amber pour, thick white head. Aroma and flavour of stewed apple. Plenty of unbalanced citric bitterness. Sadly, not great – although judging by Craig’s rating it had probably been on a few days, so one to try again in the future [25042012]
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
caask at cloisters ... light golden amber ... thin white head ... soft zezty lemon ...
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: APR 25, 2011 Cask at the Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks I took the tasting notes for this from the Peterborough Beer Festival website as there was nothing about this on the Black Hole brewery website that I could see. First things first the beer that I had poured a very pale gold in fact I would suggest it was more straw like in colour with a white head. Aroma was citrussy and fruity. Taste really quite bitter, good length, crisp and dry but hops are very much to the fore and I was surprised atthe bitterness of this, Its a decent beer and aside from the light brown description every things else in the commercial write-up is spot on. A7 A4 F7 P4 Ov14 3.6 Had this again on Cask, handpump at FFTMC, Oxford 17.04.11 Pours mid gold with a white rim of bubbles. Some honey and whilst pleasant the hops seemed a little subdued and not quite the beer I had hoped for. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov12 3.2
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