3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, Guildford Arms, Edinburgh. Clear copper color. Bitter taste, soft and smooth texture, slightly creamy. Decent bitter.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Bridge, Kingswinford. Pours dark orange with a medium head. Aroma was bitter orange hops. Taste had orange malt to start and an orange hop finish with some pine.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (Gallows Bird, Espoo, Real Ale Festival 2002) - Brakspear-brewed,
not Wychwood
Rich orange, small head. Well balanced hoppy aroma, some fruity esters.
Decent full malty body, but decently hopped too. Fruity hop finish. Anna
says "yum". Rating rediscovered while packing for a move in 2010.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
The higher gravity makes it feel a little less bitter than the ordinary, but you still couldn’t call it sweet. Very distinctive flavour, I guess toffee and caramel but in unusual proportins and a very long bitter finish. One of those beers that it’s hard to mistake for anything else.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
From notes. Deep copper color with a thin white head. Aroma of orange peel and caramel. Flavor starts with caramel and progresses to a bitter finish. Complex.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, various occasions at The Swan, Bicester. Copper colour with red hue, bit sweet, with plenty of toffee flavours, malty finishes bitter.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask hand-pump at the Crooked Billet, Wokingham. A deep golden colour with a white head; strong yeasty aroma; soft caramel sweet roasted malt flavour; with a rounded bitter finish.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Very deep red-brown colour. Hardly any head at all. Soft bit sweet roasty malty aroma. Soft, flat, toasty malty, caramel flavour. Soft long bitter finish.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
[Cask at Troonfest] Aroma of toffee, nettles and cookie dough. medium body, dry finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Aroma gives less than i may have wanted, malt character which seems to be common from this brewery. Taste is a bit richer, malts which give sweetness and hops which give spiceyness and orange peel, a good session ale.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Anglesea Arms London SW7. Reddish-amber colour. Flavour starts malty and has a long bitter finish.
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