3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ The Cross Keys, 31 Endell Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London England WC2H 9BA.
Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light apple, moderate hoppy, lemon. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate ot heavy shell bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090803]
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Amber with a lasting and creamy off-white head. Sweet and fruity aroma with currants and a grassy touch. Dryish biscuit malty flavour with strong grassy hop flavour and bitterness.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Half pint, 3.9% abv, cask in fine shape at The Cross Keys, Covent Garden. Spotty lacing-head. Copper-red body. Welcoming aroma of late fruits and sweet malts. Mild caramel malts in flavour sustained by orange fruits. Lingering aftertaste of dry bitterness (London, 02.08.2009).
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: AUG 8, 2009 Cask @ pub Charles Dickens London. A clear copper colored beer, with no head. The aroma of malts and caramel. There are overipe fruits and bitterness. The taste is dry bitter and some yeast. there are spices in the back. The aftertaste stays dry and bitter for a while.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask@The Cross Keys. Coppery colour, mediumsized creamy beige head. Nice lace. Aroma is fruits, sweet wood, yeast annd some red berries. Flavour is wood, some berries as well as quite earthy notes.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Cask via handpump at the Star, Highgate, London N19 on 18th July 2009. Amber, and slightly hazy, with short-lived, fully-dissipating off-white head. Sharply bitter with malt aromas overtaken by salient bitterness which lasts to a very long dry finish on a slightly textured mouthfeel afforded by mild natural carbonation (condition). Some grassiness develops later.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ London Drinker 25:
Very copper with a bubbly white head.
Barnyard and orange aromas.
Orangey and light, smooth and silky. Like the honeycomb from a Crunchie bar but with buttery raw beef.
Oily in texture with a tiny, grating dryness.
Very nice bitter, a little of everything. Yummers.
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