3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at The Turf Tavern, Oxford. Pale gold with white head. Light and thin beer with quite a strong vanilla flavour and a little bit of a sicky note. Tart and syrupy with strong alcohol character. Grapfruit in the finish. Reasonable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at a JDW, Blackheath. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is sticky, piney hops. Taste has a hoppy, sticky start. Sweet hoppy medium bitter finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned handpump Wig & Pen Northampton. A light golden beer with a white head. Suprisingly little in the aroma, but otherwise a fairly full bodied summery beer. Light citrus but pretty restrained flavours. Refreshing but disappointing.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask (GBBF2010)
6 Sweet malty aroma
3 Pale, small head
5 A bit alcoholic. Quite bitter too
2 Ew, harsh and a bit chemical
9 Sweet and chemical. Probably not what the brewer intended.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Just aweseom, the best dark one I had the the festival maybe. Very nice andd very milky too. NIce features and characters.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask handpull, Spoons, Market Harborough. Creamy white resolving into straw; fine lace rim and specks. Heady orange flesh and marmalade aroma. Background, incidental alcohol swamped with ripe orange, honey and vanilla; lingering corn and cashew afters. Fresh, bittersweet and treacherous stuff made savoury by that fleshy orange hop. Could do a few pints of this.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@GBBF2010. Golden colour with small white head. Aroma is fruits, earth, some mild grainyness. Flavour is quite much the same, but also has some slight doughy notes.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask-conditioned at the Hillgrove Porter Stores, Bristol 7/08/10. Deep gold in colour with a slight, white head. As mentioned below, very easy drinking for the ABV, with some sweet, citrus notes and decent, dry finish. Strangely easy drinking.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Nip at GBBF 2010. Light golden colour. Small big bubbled head, no lace. Strange mix of artificial sweeteners and light citrus flavors. Short finish. Odd but not bad.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask - White Cliffs Festival 2010, Dover. A clear, golden yellow beer with a fine, disappearing white head. A touch of sulphur on the nose with bittersweet, earthy hops. A hint of the wheat on the tongue with good citrus notes and a honey sweetness. Crisp and medium in body with a mild dryness.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
29th May 2008. ’Belgian Style Ale’ said the blurb. Hmmm. Really just a mildly hopped ale. Very easy drinking.
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