2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium orange color with a small, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, earth - damp stain - fusty malt, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100804]
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at GBBF 2010. An amber beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma has notes of citrusy hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and citrusy hops, leading to a bitter finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is slight chemical and fruity. Sweet malty and slight bitter. Ends dry and bitter. Slight herbal too.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@Cambridge Blue, Cambridge. Amber colour, small head. Aroma is leathery, malty, mildly earthy as well as quite smoked. Flavour i fruits, wood, some mild yeasty and leathery notes as well as mild notes of mint/anis.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ GBBF 2010. Pours a golden orange color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty toffee whisky aroma. Sweetish malty fruity caramel flavor with some weak hints of whisky. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
cask at GBBF 2010 ... golden yellow ... soft dry hop nose ... dull dry toffee fruits ... very boring but ok.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
4th August 2010. GBBF.
Slightly hazy amber beer with a suddy off white head. Semi dry palate. Rich dark orange hops and a brandyish malt make this beer feel almost like a Christmas Special. It’s a tad too dry but a nice flavour and very drinkable.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 04/08/2010
Some sherry malt aroma. Golden coloured strong in alcohol and hoppy with a hint of bitterness in a dry malt finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at Merton Summer B.F ’08. Hazed orange brown with white head. This was a frutiy sweet big beer, alcohol nose and fullness but quite sherry like on the close. It’s ok.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
A Mes rate: Gravicask at Fin’s excellent Merton Beer Festival.
Hazy amber with no head. Aroma of chlorine and whisky casks. Flavour is a little better than I expected after the aroma but it’s still not great. For me it’s a standard matured for too long in a whisky cask. Very, very dry finish with more, all to obvious peaty whisky. Not for me.
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