3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, Criterion, Leicester. Dark amber with a firm small foam. Quite Autumnal looking. Aromas are weetabix and chocolate malts with fruit tea. Mildy spicy with earthy hops. Flavours are sweet and malty followed by dry, bitter hops. A proper traditional bitter. Good.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
15th July 2010. Chelmsford Beer Festival. Hazy gold beer. Light palate. The malt has a light smoky edge to it. Reasonable hop fruit. A little unusual when combined with the smoky malt. Finishes dry.
1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Half pint, guest ale on cask at The White Star in Stoke. Nitro white head over an amber body with a slight haze. Rather anonymous in aroma and taste. Some moments of dried fruits and plain malts can be spotted. Short lived bitter finish. A comedown compared to all the Titanic brews at the pub (02.05.2009).
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at The Bartons Arms, Aston, Birmingham. Copper with white head. A standard session type bitter that is just simple, malty, a tad sweetish, but really quite plain.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, The Crown, Nuneaton. Brilliant copper with a stable white collar. Slightly jammy dried fruit, coniferous dusty Everard’s aroma. Very Everard’s-like chew of sultana, Weetabix crumbs, faint rhubarb fruit. Some beeswax seeping into the aroma. Simple, clean and tasty BB.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Amber with a small white head. Dominant note in aroma and taste is a rather grim, dull cardboard. Quite sharp bitterness. Doesn’t do its job, I’m afraid.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Pig’s Ear BF 2007.
Nice, hoppy bitter, fine body, but not outstanding. A decent session bitter.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (gravity dispense), Pigs Ear Beer Festival 2007. Not too much to add to the commercial description really. Copper colour. Slightly rustic, traditional best bitter. Dry, dusty malts underpin some earthy, restrained bitterness. Very slightly woody mouthfeel. Thoroughly English in style. Solid but nothing to really distinguish it from the crowd. Would probably come across better in a pub than at a festival generously populated with dark beers and Christmas specials.
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