3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ The Rutland Arms, Sheffield. The pour’s a light gold color with a tight white head. The nose is lemon drizzle cake, cake shop. Sugary sweetness. The taste is of general pale malt flavors, a bit of lemon cake. Bready sweetness. Some white grape. Light body, soft carbonation. Overall, another pleasant golden ale.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask handpull, The Rutland Arms, Sheffield, 31/12/12. To ’Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ and ’Paranoid’. Bright orange gold with a slim but heavy-lacing lid. Grass, shrub, urinal cake, crushed biscuit aroma. Good shrub, zest of lemon, curry leaf and lime stillness. Solid, herby fresh sessions.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at CPK, Pimlico, London on 9th March 2012. Hazy amber with short-lived non-lacing offwhite foam. Malty, sweet light aroma. Grassy hoppiness and some background floral fruitiness in-mouth; late bitter kick leading to a dryish finish with peach and berry notes. Light, smooth and velvety texture.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Cask and Kitchen London. Golden with a thin head. Dry bitter hop aroma and flavour with some fruit. A bit bland.
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Quite bitter but without a decent hop charge. I quite like it but it justdorsn’t sing in my mind
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask handpull at Rutland Arms Sheffield. Mid gold lasting white head. Quite a full tasty golden ale. Had enough today to tell the difference. This is decent. Very drinkable. Yep tasty. Really got my tired palate going. Still a Hophead me 2 but a good one
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) @ Rutland Arms, 86 Brown Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England S1 2BS.
Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, pale malt, fruity, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20111020]
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned at Minehead Beer Fest ’11. Hazy gold with white head. Good fruity, hoppy flavours right from the off, juicy grapefruit and orange notes, nicely bittering and lingering on the palate. A little belter I reckon.
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