3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium orange colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, light pine, mandarine notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110802]
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Golden with a small white head. Sweet malty aroma with honey notes, some apple and pear. Sweetish and full bodied flavour with pear fruit, grassy and herbal hops, in particular a touch of nettle
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours clear yellow with a small white head and lacings. Citrussy, floral and grainy. Dry, fresh, smooth and bitter. Nice.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at GBBF 2011 - Tuesday. Clear golden - white head. Tea, herbal, citrus, fruity, freshness, light body, light roasted notes, pilsner malty, light flowery hoppy.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask@GBBF2011. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is rather Nelson Sauvin like fruity with also some slight catpissy and slightly sour wooden notes. Flavour is fruits, wood, some mild malts, mild Nelson notes as well. Pleasantly balanced.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, Nottingham 09. Not blue, but orange amber busy with lace. Slipping into generic caramelised bottled bitter territory now. Tea, caramel, lemon and sweet vegetable aroma. Actually quite a good sweat of hop. Soapy orange and grapefruit mingled with choc Hobnob, linger of Rich Tea dunked in Darjeeling. Woodsy and creamy. Exceptional ordinary bitter, magnificently named.
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