3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear medium amber colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, nutty, toffee, moderate hoppy, grass. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120805]
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled@chriso. Amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruity, toffeeish, mild caramel and some quite floral hops as well. Flavour is fruity, toffeeish, mild chocolaty notes as well as some sweet floral notes. Wellbalanced and nice bitter.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. An amber brown coloured beer with a whitish ring of head. A very old fashioned English beer. Low hopping. Grainy and husky yet with high bitterness. Not satisfying but drinkable.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Sainsburys. Amber coloured with a slight, off-white head and bit of carbonation. Bready malt aroma with some hedgerow fruit and dusty hops. Slightly sweet, cereal malts with a touch more fruit and lingering bitter finish. A good bottled bitter.
2.4 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle from Morrisons. A raspingly bitter Best Bitter edging toward a Premium Bitter. Clean and pleasant malt with notes of honey, caramel and barley sugar. The hops are boiled in, producing strong tobacco, tree bark, earthy damp potatoes, and sarsaparilla. The beer is drinkable, but way too hoppy for me.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
50cl bottle from Sainsburys. Pours amber with a loose cream head; straightforward hoppy aroma with just a touch of farmyard; rich, chewy caramel malts, with some fresh, nettley hops and a dry finish. Very drinkable.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle, from Waitrose, Lincoln. Copper, thin but lasting white head, gentle condition. Pleasant earthy hops and caramel with a hint of peppery spiciness in the nose, quite sweet initialy in the mouth with more traces of caramel but with a developing hop bitterness, brief toffee note in the finish but becomes bitter at the end.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Golden and clear with a small head.Lovely maltiness with a medium body. Very pleasant. No doubt about it this is a classy bitter.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml bottle. Pours dark amber with a medium head. Aroma is bready malt and peppery hops. Some caramel to start and the bread and peppery hops are in the finish. Good beer but I reckon it would be much better on cask.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Light brown colour. Flavour has a big, round malt flavour with light sweetness. Nice dry finish where complex but not dominant hops come through.
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