3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ Smithfield Hotel, 37 Swan St, Manchester, Greater Manchester England M4 5JZ.
Clear light to medium brown amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity, fruity acidic, moderate hoppy, orange, grass notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090121]
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Handpump at the Smithfield Hotel, Manchester 21/01/2009
Fruit aroma. Bronze coloured and fruity with a little dryness in a bitter wheaty malt finish.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Smithfield Hotel, Manchester M4. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with some hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Smithfield Hotel, Manchester. A hazy chestnut colored beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel as well as light notes of butterscotch as well as light notes of citrus, leading to a dry bitter and malty finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Attractive deep, rich, ruby/brown colour. Not much came through on the aroma. Reasonable balance of malt and hop in the flavour. Dry, slightly sharp, finish. Although nothing really stood out in this beer, I rather enjoyed it. Cask (gravity dispense) at Peterborough Beer Festival.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Peterborough Fest. Ruby coloured darkly bitter premium bitter. Nicely done but not to my taste. Too old school, too much English bitter hops.
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