3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Gravity Cask @ Southampton Beer Festival ’07. An elderflower beer from the former cheriton brewers, I think their intention is to only brew this when the fresh elderflower are available. Pale citric floral nose/ Slightly oppressive perfume at first but not unpleasant after a while. Mild biscuity malts with slight sweetness and good tangy finish. A more aggressively flavoured beer than village elder but perhaps works better that way.
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Golden in colour, light, hoppy, with the aroma and sweetness from the elderflower. A marvellous pint that you could drink all day...
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask@ Belfast Beer Fest 2011.
Fresh elderflower nose on this golden beer and plenty of flavour despite its modest 3.5% ABV. Good bitter finish from the green bullet hops. Gentle carbonation. Used to be my session beer when I lived in Southampton and just as good with the reduced ABV.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask @ 3 Judges. Golden colour, offwhiteh head. Nose is vegetables, bit of malts. Flavour is malty, lots of biscuits, fairly bitter. Watery and one-dimensional. Fairly bitter finish. Really poor.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
UPDATED: AUG 24, 2011 Cask @ The 3 Judges. Fagash malt aroma. Golden colour, reasonable head. Creamy resin malt flavour, quite watery. A bit bland but drinkable.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the CASK, Pimlico, 20th Jan 2011. Clear golden with a little bit of white head. Citric and hoppy but a bit thin, too bland and lacking in bite.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
[Cask at the Bootleggers, High Wycombe] Rather anaemic golden colour, negligible head. Grassy hops, some light floral notes and a bit of wee-wee (well, like I imagine wee-wee would taste, I have no plans of actually trying it to find out...). A disappointment after their excellent Maximus.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at peterborough beer fest 2009. Alround rating: Citrusy goodness, light pale malt, small bit of plastic off the hop, but is brushed up by its goodness. Gread body, infinatly drinkable.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at GBBF 09 ... golden ... bright lemon hop nose ... zezty sherbert hop ... fresh bright and clean lemon.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask Handpump at the GBBF Bar Nouveau, Earls Court London 08/08/2007
Sour fruit aroma. Golden coloured fruity and sour with a sharp and slightly acidic slightly bitter finish.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Aug 2008)
Golden with a short head. Hoppy. Elderflower is prominent in the scent. Lightly carbonated, sweet with a hint of bitterness on the end. In the mouth, the elderflower doesn’t last and is replaced by a little hop on the end with a dry finish.
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