3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (gravity) @ The 16th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2010, Reading, Berkshire England.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate to light light heavy hoppy, citrus, hop oil. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100430]
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@Craft Beer Co, London. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, some citrusy and sweet malty notes with mild catpissyness as well. Flavour is fruity, floral, wooden and quite grassy with some sweet maltyness as well. Bitter finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
cask at bow .... golden amber .. thin white head ... big sweet juicy lemon hop ... juicy sweet big lemon peel hop ... little zezty... lovley
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask gravity at Reading BF 2010. Clear gold. Decent. Sherberty hop. Fairly typical UK strong golden beer with US hops. Decent, tasty, good hops. OK condition. Fine. Just lacks sparkle.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
1st August 2012
Cask at the Craft. Clear gold beer, tidy white head. Smooth palate with mild fine carbonation. A little creamy malt supports really good hops. Lovely tangy orange and tangerine with glorious tropical fruits, peach and mango and others, even some red berries. Really nice mix of hop flavours. Finsihes semi dry. Infinity was my new Blue Monkey high just a few mins ago but I’m knocked sideways by this - great stuff!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask Handpump from the Foyer Bar at the Assembly Rooms, Derby 06/02/2010
Big hop aroma. Clear golden coloured hoppy citrus and grapefruit flavour with a hint of dryness in a creamy bitter finish.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned at The Wellington, Birmingham. Gold with white head. A very fine beer this, crisp, hoppy with a tangy lime like note, sharp, citrusy and full. I really enjoyed this, it left a lasting and pleasing taste. Great stuff.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: AUG 13, 2011 Cask conditioned handpump Wellington Birmingham. A golden beer with a white head. This is one of those strong hoppy English goldens which has some cloying notes although to be fair that is reasonably short lived. The good hops then come through and overtake the sickliness. It’s a good beer but probably needs a better malt base. Score 3.4
Subsequent rating scored 3.7. Average becomes 3.5
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, Loughborough Fest 10. Golden with a white head. Aromas are floral with lemon and some peppery notes. Flavours are sweet biscuit and toast with citrus. Peppery and hoppy with grapefruit and apricot. Lightly woody. Dry on the finish. Decent.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, handpump at The Silkmill, Derby 30-01-10 in company of Loz, Simon (Haddonsman) my dad and Pauline I understand from reading some local CAMRA publications that relatively new beer has already won an award in the strong bitter category at a recent East Midlands Festival so I was keen to try this as the Blue Monkey Beers I’ve tried so far have been lovely. Pours warm gold edging towards a very light amber difficult to be precise in the light of this pub. Some pleasant mineral type flavours on the tongue, with a good smattering of tingly hoppiness, its clean, very, very drinkable and another belter from Blue Monkey. A7 A5 F7 P4 Ov14 3.7
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