3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Battersea Beer Festival, 12th February 2009. The standard amber looks and foamy head don’t give anything away but the nose gives foreshadows the coconut, almond, marzipan & icing sugar taste to come. Balanced nicely with a decent hop finish. Also gets points for annoying Americans by being labelled as an IPA despite being 3.6%! Not sure if I’d want to drink a haf dozen pints though, which is the true test of a session bitter.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Nutty with caramel, creating a sweet and slightly bitter flavour. The body is mid with a dark gold colour. Alright.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity) @ The 16th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2010, Reading, Berkshire England.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a small to average, frothy, good to fair lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, nutty, moderate hoppy, grapefruit, hop oil. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100430]
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask gravity at Reading BF 2010. OK toasty beer. Not hugely hoppy, some dryness, but mostly toasted biscuit. Rather a nice session bitter.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at the Kingston Arms, Cambridge. Gold with a thin off-white head; malty aroma; thin and watery with caramel malts and some red fruit flavours; the finish is slightly sour, long and spicy. OK, but not an IPA.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A Mes rate: Gravicask at Battersea Beer Festival.
Good clean light copper colour with a decent and lasting white head. Well balanced and full of malt and hops. Wheat and straw in abundance with some pleasant tobacco notes. Biscuity finish with a little bit of tea but I’ll let it slide. Not bad.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned at The Woolpack, Banbury. Amber with white head. Citrusy, grassy nose with a peppery character. The body is drying, malty and bitter with biscuit notes. There is then a whoosh of hops, grapefruity and slightly acidic, plenty of flavour for its strength. Good stuff.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: MAY 17, 2012 Cask conditioned - handpump - Wig and Pen Northampton. A copper coloured beer with whitish lacing. The aroma has good citrus hops. The taste is full of grapefruity hops. Very much in the mould of the new breed of hoppy English beers but this is less sharp and has a better malt base than most. Nice bitterness and excellent flavours for its low ABV. I am again impressed by this brewery. Score 3.7
Subsequent rating scored 3.4. Average becomes 3.6
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