3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sampled cask conditioned at Cloister, Edinburgh.
Amber coloured. Flowery aroma. Strongly soapy mouthfeel (in a pleasant way). Medium bodied and really biter. A well hopped and flavourful cask ale.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned handpump Moon On The Square Northampton. A copper coloured beer with a loose but large white head. An odd beer with a fruity malty aroma with grapefruit and crisp apple notes. A little strange but drinkable enough.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@Market Porter. Copper coloured with small off-white head. Aroma is fruity and floral hops along with some herbs and mild grass. Flavour is fruity and floral hops with quite much caramel malts as well as some bready notes. Also some mild stinging berryish notes. A quite pleasant one.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at the Babington Arms, Derby. Gold with a creamy white head; lime and citrus aroma; more citrus flavour with a bitter grapefruit bite and dry finish with orange and lime. Very pleasant on a summers evening.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at The Woolpack, Banbury. Brown to orange with off white head. Good big bitter with an underlying alcohol note, slightly tart and fruity, but with a balancing hop. A decent Premium Bitter.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (Angleterre, Helsinki)
Orange brown, slightly non-clear. Sweet dark fruit, ginger and malt aroma. Very complex taste, everything from the aroma, but with masses of hops - very clean and crisp and full bodied, well balanced. Very similar to Thomas Sykes, but at only 5%.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pint in the Kings Head, Monmouth. Before I start, this beer was not well kept. Cloudy appearance, deep amber colour. Non to very thin head. Nutty flavour. Not a fair rating and will need to rate again, put off by its dish water texture, colour, aroma. I will come back to this one....one day
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Moon Under Water in Watford. Pours a slightly cloudy orange colour with only a small amount of head. Slightly earthy smell with some definite hop notes, the flavour is somewhat tart, with hops and unripe fruit in the taste. Slight sweetness in the aftertaste.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
1. Cask Handpump at the Helter Skelter, Frodsham 27/08/2001
Mid brown coloured with some fruit flavour and alcohol present. Hop finish.
2. Cask Handpump at the Station Buffet, Stalybridge 19/07/2003
Golden slightly hazy with some alcohol. Fruity with a slightly bitter full malt finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at Phoenix, Canterbury. Dark copper, sparse bubbly off white head, nice malts on nose, with some rich dark berry fruit which continues into the mouth. Good acids then spicey hop finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Clear amber in colour. Aromas are spicy, floral hops with pear. Flavours are moreish juicy malts with more pear. Lots of dry hops, very dry. Quite addictive.
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