3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled, 500ml from Bellingers Garage, Grove, Oxon. Clear red amber with chunky white head. Nicely put together bottled Best Bitter, sweet, full malt character, fruity, a little grainy / mashy, then a subtle but noticeable hop giving reasonable bitterness and an apricot note. Good quaffable beer.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Bristol’s Beerd, 8th May 2012. Not bad, standard clean bitter, a little under whelming on taste but good for a session beer
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Rehills in Newcastle. Bottle called "Seven". Copper coloured with a malty, sweet and bitter woody flavour and a toffee and nutty finish.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Nina’s. Pours a copper colour with a beige head that dies away to lacing. Aroma of toffee, caramel and alcohol. Similar toffee flavour upfront with light bitterness and an oily mouth-feel. Moderate carbonation. OK.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned handpump Salmon Leicester. A clear amber brown coloured beer with a nice whitish head and lacing. Sweet with caramel and toffee notes. Leafy hops. The sweetness is pleasant not intrusive. Good at what it does.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Toffee caramel malt. Syrupy taste or to put it another way, good body. Hops play second fiddle in this one. Another good beer from BBF (bottle).
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Copper coloured with a thin head. Caramel, hops and yeasty aromas. Caramel and hop flavours. Sessionable.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Moreish. Deep chestnut bitter. Grassy hops with some sweet raisin flavour in there somewhere. The moutfeel’s a bit watery and sub-par. Overall, I’m slightly underwhelmed by this offering given the strong general reputation of the brewery.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at Mason and Taylor. Amber coloured with a small white head. Aroma is full of toffee and caramel. Quite malty. Slightly spiky in the mouth and taste has lots of malt and a tiny bit of spice. Nice!
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Brownish beer with a fairly strong head. The aroma is roasted and well hopped, and the flavour is toffee, hopped and roasted with a reasonably long yeasty and dry finish. Overall a very nice strongly flavoured bitter.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
[cask at the Grain Barge, Bristol] Sampled as part of the £7 ‘pie and a pint’ deal at the Grain Barge. Unfortunately it poured totally flat, the lovely dark chestnut colour untroubled by any trace of a head. That said, it was quite fantastic – the classic Fuggles aroma paired very well with the Challenger hops on the palate, and with the slight traces of ripe fruit, vanilla and toffee in the aftertaste, seriously drinkable [17102009]
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