3.1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 19/20
St Aldate’s Tavern, Oxford. Light beer - green apples. Crisp, clean, fresh with a tart edge. Doppelganger feels this is unusual for the Gold - perhaps it’s a bit young - there’s plenty of foam. I like it anyway. Lager-like, but with more flavour and freshness.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask. Dark gold with a decent head. A fairly malty aroma. Standard English malt and hop combo. Dull.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ The Windsor Castle, London. Golden amber colour, good head. Vanilla, Biscuit, caramel & malt aroma. Dry caramel malt flavour, bitter aftertaste. Decent bitter.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask. Frothy white fair mostly deminishing head. DArk yellow colour. Light malty and hopy aroma. light bitter flavor. Average light bitter finish. Oily palate.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ the Bree Louise. Small head with short duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, fruits, flowers and hops. Soft carbonated and medium bodied.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at The Volunteer, London. Pours clear gold with a weak, white head. Some light toasty malts in the nose with light, leafy hops. Lightly sweet flavor, dry, leafy, some white sugar and crackers. Light bodied with soft carbonation. Quite dry on the finish, with leafy bitters, faint grass, lightly toasted bread. Somewhat bland on the whole, and the condition seems sub-optimal.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask. Golden color. Light body, a sweet, a bit grassy. Light malts. A pretty lightweight pint. Not a nice bitter.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Hand pulled at the Shakespeare (Summer Row), Birmingham. Marshmallow sweetness with a little rice krispie. Sweet aroma, not much depth. Thin. Not great.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Golden body, white head. Malts, some citrus, some pines and nuts. Medium bitterness.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at Cask. Pours dark gold into an English pint. White head crackles and recedes to nothing. Honey aromas. Soft with sweet caramel upfront turning bitter in the lasting finish.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask in The Coach Makers, Old Marylebone Lane. Pours golden yellow to copper coloured. Nose is sweet crystal malty and fruity English hops and some light citrous too. Taste is malty, fruity, bit of pepper. Mouthful is bit oily, medium bodied.
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