2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@St Albans Beer Festival. Toffee and green apple, quite sweet and flat, pretty bad.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (handpulled) at the Royal Oak, Ockbrook, Derby. Another month, another Gold Medal beer, this one has tweaks in the aroma (sweet fruits) and palate (stronger bitterness). A good GM this month.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask (St Albans 05): Very fruity nose. Copper in colour. Fruity, a bit dry, chalky and really quite boring. Almost a little sweaty.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, Burton Fest 05. Amber with a small head. Aromas are sweet biscuit malts with sulphur. Flavours are sweet pink grapefruit with sweet biscuit and plain chocolate bittermess. Soft and smooth until the dry, bitter finish kicks in. More grapefruit towards the finish. Good stuff.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask (gravity dispense), St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Silk’s comments arise from the fact that they incorrectly had this on the printed list as being made Itchen Valley at Stoke Ferry, Norfolk (which is where the defunct Wissey valley brewery was based). Copper colour. Clammy, sweaty sock aroma. Dull, bitter and acidic flavour. Dodgy condition, hence I’ve not been too tough in the scoring. Re-rate if possible.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - St Albans BF. A mid brown coloured beer with a goodly amount of diacetyl in the aroma. The taste is sweet and a bit apply and sulphuric. Not sure I understand Silk’s comment about Itchen Valley, especially as I though it tasted very Burton Bridgesque.
1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 5/20
St Albans. Gravity. Very dry and bitter. Old English hop oil. Difficult to drink - more difficult to enjoy. Listed as an Itchen Valley beer.
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