2.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: SEP 21, 2008 - Oct, 2004 - JDW, Rochester - Oktoberfest. Autumnal fruit in the fading light of summer. Faint cherries echo the marmite of breakfast. [3.0] --
- Sept, 2008 - Beaufort Arms, Gower. Malty sweet with some brown sugar flavours. Nice, though not top quality. [2.9]
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask @ The State Bar. Medium brown colour, good head. Dry caramel malt aroma. Dry fruity flavour, bitter aftertaste. Average bitter.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 7/20
Cask - Yeast, earthy and fermenting cheese aroma. Amber in colour. Watery body. Butter and moderate bitter taste. Flat and very strange in taste. Hard to drink with its processed feel.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
First tasted this in The Esquire House, Glasgow (JDW) in October 2001. Cask , handpump dispense. Crystal clear mahogany red in colour with a thick creamy white head. Slight hint of black cherry fruit in the short nose. Creamy so smooth mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give smooth maltloaf base with redcurrant fruit, ripe brambles and blackcurrants. Spicy hops give a decent prickle in the dry aftertaste. Woody notes give a dry yet fruity finish. A really good session ale this.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Cleveland Arms, London. Pours a clear, ruby-chestnut with a thin, white head. Fuity malt aroma with light nuts. Sweet, semi-boozy flavor with mild grape and cherry, and faint, earthy bitterness. Medium in body with soft carbonation. Some alcohol notes in the finish, with wood, dark malts and modest hops. So so.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Straight from the cask at Arkell’s Brewery Beer Festival 2010. Mahogany coloured beer. Soil in the nose, chocolate taste and a honey palate.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Elm Tree, Cambridge. Gold with a scummy off-white head leaving lots if lacing; fruity malt aroma; dry and woody flavour. Disappointing overall.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull at The Old Fountain, Old Street. Chestnut, lassting thin off white head. Yeasty aroma, it’s a bitter, bit of butter. Pretty decent ofr a standard bitter. fine.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at The Regal JDW, Cambridge, 03-10-09 Pours dark amber, white head. There is a whiff of lavender on the nose with some malt. Taste is also malty but there I was surprised by hoppy burps. Nicely bitter, and whilst decent it never threatens greatness. A6 A3 F6 P3 Ov12 3.0
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask in the southwark tavern. Alround rating: Woody malt?, piney chocolate?, peppery lychee. Strange and suprizingly good. I had this at midday i seem to recall so i couldnt hvae been drunk by my rate makes no sence.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask - West Gate Inn (JDW), Canterbury. Pale amber with a small, off-white head. Aromas of caramel, yeast, spice and TCP. The flavours are sweet toffee, nutty, slightly toasty with a dryish bitterness and a lightly spicy finish. On the thin side of medium in body with an average mouthfeel and low carbonation.
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