3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, fruity, light roasted - nutty. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110802]
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
From cask. Pours cloudy orange with a small tan head. Aroma is mild fruity and slight roasted. Bitter, malty and light herbal. Bitter, dry and toasted malty. Ends bitter and dry.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@GBBF2011. Amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is fruits, wood, some resiny notes as well as mild floral and some malty notes. Flavour is fruits, wood, some mild notes of flowery notes. Balanced and nice.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at GBBF 2011.
Clear amber coloured with a small off-white head.
Fruity aroma of hops, grass and caramel.
Fruity flavour of hops, grass and grape fruits.
Dry hoppy finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ GBBF 2011. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma with some earthy hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with hoppy hints.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours clear golden with no head. Bread, grain and hay. Floral and hoppy flavor. Smooth.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
@ Pulteney Arms, Bath. Golden-amber. Fruity, slightly malty arom6a. Spicy (pepper) character with complex toasty notes, caramelized onions (mix of smokey phenols and caramelized sugars) and balancing fruity character.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at the GBBF. Amber with a small off-white head. Fruity and grainy aroma. Dry grainy flavour. Rather boring
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at Coventry Beer Fest ’12. Amber with white head. Good, pleasing fresh tasting bitter, lasting on the palate, good, juicy, fruity hops with apricot and gooseberry notes for me. Dryly bitter, pretty decent.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask at the Volunteer Riflemans Arms, Bath. Pours clear gold with a creamy, off-white cap. Tangy, doughy malt nose - smells off a bit. Light sweet avor with some definite tang, light astringency, faint hay, berries. Light bodied with fine carbonation. More lightly soured malts on the finish, hints of dough and plastic, some ripe fruits. Not good at all. Out of shape.
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