3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at The Royal Blenheim, Oxford. Amber with white head. Fruity, malty beer, didn’t get the Mount Hood hops at all, there is an earthy, dampish, fungal hop note, leaf litter that doesn’t lift the beer, frankly it’s a little dull.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask - The Kings Head, Norwich. Poured a clear amber with a mostly lasting creamy-foamy beige head leaving a bit of lace. Sweet toffee malt aromas. A bit of marmalade on the tongue behind the dominant sweet malt body. Bready, biscuity malts too with an earthiness and touch of citrus in the finish. Medium body, soft carbonation and a short, dryish, light hop finish. A solid ESB & a point for the condition.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Guest cask at the Pembury Tavern on 27th June 2009. Amber coloured premiume ale with a magnolia coloured head. Delicately sweet aroma with flowery/fruity notes, quite bitter in the kick but finish shortish, some hoppiness but nothing outstanding.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at Battersea Beer Festival, 11th Feb 2009. Hazy amber, full bodied. Great balance and flavour.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at GBBF 2007. A hazy golden beer with a thick cream colored head. The aroma is sweet maty with notes of caramel and flowers. The flavor is sweet malty combined with floral hop notes and some fruit, leading to a dry and slightly bitter finish.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A Mes rate: Cask at The Crown.
Golden brown with a good white head and lace. Pleasant nutty malt and floral hop aroma. Run of the mill hoppy bitter in the mouth with an uneventful finish. Balances well but just nothing to give it any interest.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask/GBBF. Amber with a small but lasting off-white head. Grassy aroma with cabbage notes. Dry and quite bitter. The aroma is reeally a turn-off. I love the name though. Makes me pine for the fiords.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@GBBF2007. Amber colour, big creamy beige head. Aroma is hay, caramel, malts and some hops. Flavour is caramel, some spices and wood. Quite waterybrew.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
SLighly clowdy amber, light hop bose, mellow malty citrusy fruity bitter, little zingy bitter finish
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask, Kingdom of Fife BF 07. Cloudy amber, thin bubbly head. Nose is hoppy, slightly sulphuric. Flavour is slightly roasted malts, bit watery. Some sulphur in the mouth. Tannin palate, slightly bitter. Not very robust.
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