1.1 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 3/20
a very strange aroma that almost puts one off drinking it at all. odd, slightly chalky texture, with a weird chemical taste. maybe it just doesn’t travel well, but on the evidence so far I won’t be heading to Totnes to try it again
4.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
fantastic rustic traditional beer, drunk 20 metres from where it was brewed at the Albert Inn Totnes
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On gravity at the Portcullis, Bristol 10/12/09. A solid session amber session beer with a slight, off-white head. Aroma of biscuity malts, red fruit and a hint of earthy hop. Flavour started with some sweet malts, more fruit and a decent, bitter finish. Ok.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@Nottingham Beer Festival, 2008. Amber beer with a chlorine aroma, and a mildy toffee and weakly hopped flavour. Overall a very disappointing beer due to the aroma.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned at The Albert Inn, Totnes, Devon. Amber with white head. What a pleasant surprise, this is an archetypical quaffing bitter, just doing it slightly better. Biscuity dry malt with a floral, pleasingly standard tea like hop. The locals had suggested that the brewer hadn’t quite got his beer right yet, well on this evidence, he has.
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