Blindmans 2010 A Beer Odyssey

Brewed by Blindmans
Style: Bitter
Frome, England

Serve in English pint

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Rating is the better of two - that’s how the brewer intended it I’m sure.
Cask (St Urho’s, Helsinki)
6 honey,bready and a touch farty aroma
4 deep amber, large bready head
7 very bready taste, touch of wool. Hint of honey occasionally.
3 pleasant carbonation, but a tad thin after that.
13 Certaintly sessionable, a very easy and tasty quaff.
Rerate: Cask (Black Door, Helsinki)
7 sweet malts, loads of fresh noble hops
4 ditto
7 hint of lacticity, but good sweet malts, some nougat
4 full bodied, lovely hops with an acidic bite.
14 great sessionable bitter. Not throwaway as i first feared.

Cask (handpump) @ Bow Bar, 80 West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 2HH.

Clear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy to creay, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, light hoppy, wood - apple notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100205]

A Mes rate: Cask at the Market (No) Porter.
Bright copper with a very impressive off white head and lace. Big fruity malt with a good earthy feel and some excellent balancing grassy hops. Superb creamy stuff with a hint of coffee. Mellow and drinkable but bags of character. Really good stuff.

cask at cloisters ... copper thin white head ... light lemon hop ... musty fruits ... little melon ... little hop