3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned. Amber coloured. Rather malty aroma with notes of citrus fruits. Sweetish flavour of malts and fruits with a dry finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Pours a light brown colour with thin white head, good malty aroma, the taste is malty with some fruit, with a dry bitter finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask gravity @ Battersea BF 2012. Pours a pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy finish.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask conditioned Handpump Wellington London. A copper coloured beer with a whitish bubbly head. Thin and yeasty. A bit of crunchy malt. Served too cold which doesn’t allow the flavours to develop maybe but I have been disappointed with Box Steam a lot recently.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 50 cl, Westholme Stores. Pours clear dark amber with a good beige head leaving lacing. Aroma is malty, bready, a bit molassis, fruity, floral, soapy and grassy. Flavor is acidy, fruity, well malty, a bit caramel and sweet, bitter and bready. Finishes with a good longlived bitter and fruity aftertaste. Very nice indeed.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask by handpump at Haymarket Bar, Edinburgh - clear brown ale, small head, moderate carbonation, hint of caramel, not my favourite
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
From cask. Amber colour with thin white head. Aroma is stinky, lots of socks, lots of malt, not really very nice though. Bit of hops but not much. Taste is very malty and grainy. Quite dry. Bit chewy. Not really that nice.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
A - Tinny, and a touch of caramel and chocolate
A - Mid gold with thin head
T - Slight sweet with mid bitter
P - Mid
O - Alright
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Euston Tap. Pours clear brown with a frothy, cream head. Nutty, toasty malt aroma. Fairly sweet flavor, some toffee, more toasty malts and nuts, some leaves and herb bitters. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Some dark sugar and toast in the finish, bit more leafy, earthy bitters. Good beer.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear medium yellow amber color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, grain, toasted - caramel, plastic, toffee, light hoppy. Flavor is light moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration, plastic. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100917]
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a clear amber with a tiny off-white head. Some caramel and again yeast and phenols. Rather light in body, a little caramel and again all these fermenting off-flavours. Ends dry and horse. 170910
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