2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Pours a dark amber to brown with clean white head. Aroma is malty biscuit and a little varnished wood. Light and slightly fizzy on the palate. Quite a musty bitterness with a hint of caramel becomming a dry fizzy finish which makes the tongue tingle.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Cask at Crosse Keys JDW, City, London, 19 July 2011) Dark brown colour with foamy, beige head. Malty, slightly fruity nose with notes of caramel, dark bread, raisins and prunes. Malty, fruity taste with dark bread, caramel, raisins, prunes and a slightly bitter-sweet finish. Medium body, with some sweetness. Quite nice.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, Criterion, Leicester. Copper, red with a cream foam. Aromas are Weetabix and chocolate malts with mellow berries and grapefruit. Lightly floral with yeast and alcohol. Flavours are vinous fruits with dark chocolate and sweet toffee. Earthy and bitter grapefruit hops on the finish with warming alcohol.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned, gravity dispensed at Harbury beer Fest ’10. Copper with white head. A little on the sweetish side, this is initially a malty beer with a peek of alcohol, which then gives way to a drying, peppery hop. Reasonable bitterness in the close. Good.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
13th July 2010. Chelmsford Beer Festival. Clear brown beer. Suddy white head. Light palate. Semi dry and a little crisp. Sweet orange battles against some slightly smoky malt. An interesting contrast! Finishes dry with some nice tangy fruit. Decent!
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
cak at bow ... copper ... sweet toffe malt ... sweet dark fruit ... juicy ... little hop in back bone ...
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ The KIT (Kelham Island Tavern), Sheffield, Bedfordshire England S3 8GG.
Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, toffee, buttery, some sour ale notes. Flavor is moderate sweet, light light acidic, amd moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (270708)
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. According to the pumpclip it’s ’for the man who can handle his chopper’. Amber. Fruity aroma with some background malt. Sweet, slightly cardboardy malt taste. Mid bitter finish. Pretty good.
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