2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at the Claude du Vall (JDW), Camberley. Amber with a thin white head; grainy aroma; sour grain flavour; with a dry biscuity finish with a touch of ginger. Not very impressive.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
The Baron, Hinckley, 03/03/12. Almost lager amber with a loose- bubbled, diminishing top. Watery, aniseed-hinting aroma. Tang of seawater without the salt, mellow orange-accented hop, star anise, a retronasal snort of English shrubbery (privet). Malt finish with a cashew and oatmeal linger of some length. Finally bitter. Clean and decent, although I feel neither wintery or warmed.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned handpump Eastgate Northampton. A golden beer with a whitish head and lacing. Mostly malty with some oatmeally flavours. A good length. There’s little by way of aroma, but deent flavours. It’s OK. Not a winter warmer but there you go.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: FEB 18, 2012 Cask at The Archibald Simpson, JDW, Aberdeen. Pours clear gold with a sturedy, pure white foam head. Dry, bready malts in the nose. Spicy flavor, medium sweet, some toasty bread, gingerbread, leafy bitters. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet, lightly sticky finish, with Christmas spices, gingerbread, leaves. Lasting leafy, lightly grassy bitterness. OK.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask @ The Capital Asset JDW, Perth 150212
Light amber...slight haze...thin white head...reasonable lacing
Aroma of light sweet fruity malts...some christmas spices...bit metallic
Taste of sweet fruit light malts...background of bitter hops...a metallic edge increases with the drinking
Palate soft carb..medium body...oily texture. Finish bitter lingering finish with a metallic copper coin tail.
Overall - I think it’s the spices that give this metallic edge which spoils the beer
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On cask at The Sir Walter Scott. Pours a golden colour with a thick white head. Nice malty aroma of Weetabix, caramel and yeast. Very drinkable with similar flavours and a creamy mouth-feel. Moderate carbonation and lingering malt. Tasty and a great brewery logo too.
3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
JDW, St Albans. Mini crawl after the St Albans 10 Mile run. Pale amber with a frothy head. Earthy hops. Fruity malt. A pleasant hoppy bitter. Powdery hops linger.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask by handump at Last Post, Paisley - pours clear amber with an off-white head, quite smooth with a flavour of nuts, not bad at all
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 500ml. @ chriso [ chrisos festive get-together tasting ].
Clear medium yellow amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruity, candy. Flavour is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111230]
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
On cask at white horse, croxtie green. Pours amber with white head . Herbs, malts and some hoppiness. It’s ok, certainly not spicy like the blurb
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