Boggart Standard Pioneer

Brewed by Boggart Hole Clough
Style: Bitter
Manchester, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at NWAF 2009. A hazy golden beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of malt and strong notes of straw. The flavor is sweet wiht notes of malt, grain and lots of straw, leading to a dry, hoppy, and bitter finish. Reminds me of a harvest beer.

Cask at Cask Pub & Kitchen on 30th October 2009. Gold with lasting white ring of foam. Sharp slightly smoky aroma surrounds a hoppy core of grassiness that leaves a satisfyingly hoppy finish of combined bitterness and citricity on a smooth texture. A "lots going on" pint!

(Cask at Knott, Manchester, 23 July 2009) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Fruity, almost sourish nose with citrus, canned peaches and dusty hops. Fruity taste with notes of citrus, tropical fruit, hay, biscuits and citrussy hops in the finish. Fairly light body. Decent ale.

Cask @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy aroma. Fruity malty and slightly buttery flavor. Has a fruity malty finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.

Cask (gravity) @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester, England.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, dusty, sour malt, butter, butterscotch. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090123]

A Mes rate. Gravicask at the National Winter Ales festival. Clean gold with a thin white head. Creamy malt, faint hoppage and a hint of chlorine in the aroma. Wheat, straw and unbrewed malt flavour. Slight tea note in the finish. Not great by any means.

Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Curious wooden pumpclip. Never seem one like this before. No mention of the brewery; just ’Standard Pioneer’, the ABV, and a picture of some hops, all done by hand. Rather quaint. The beer is gold with a small white head. Ashy chocolate malt aroma and an interesting hoppy taste with just a slight touch of citrus. Late bitterness. A bit odd, but entertaining.

Hazy yellow,wheaty hop, mellow wheat fruityness builfing to a citrusy grapefruit, with sharp bitterness, Was odd as as far as i know no wheat used but seemed to have wheat tones.

Aroma is plasticy, pale malts come through with sweetness from somewhere. Taste is pale malts, sweet again, bittering hops dont balance to well, a strange yeasty sweetness that doesnt suit this ale.

Cask Handpump at the Bar Fringe, Manchester 26/02/2005 Golden and slightly sour flavoured. Bitter dry malt finish.