3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at aberdeen Beer festival ... Golden orange ... Light fruity nose ... Very fruity light hop ... very easy drinkin
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask by handpump at State Bar (14 Jan 12) - floral hop aroma, pale yellow with small white head, slightly bitter citrus with floral notes, bitter malt finish
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned at The Guest House, Southport. Gold amber with white head. Dry and bitter throughout with a musty dusty type hop in the mix. Easy drinking with a reasonable citrusy finish. Its not bad.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Golden with a small white head. Floral hop aroma with a little blackcurrant and biscuit. Taste adds wheat and sawdust to the above. Bitter finish. Odd but not as bad as it sounds.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Half pint pulled at The Turf Tavern in Oxford, a clear orange/amber with a frothy head. Aroma is of citrus hops, while the flavour is slightly flowery but also sweetish. A light mouthfeel with a bitter finish. I liked it, butt hat is about all.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: MAY 31, 2011 1. Cask Handpump at Wetherspoons, Manchester 30/05/2002
Golden coloured with floral and pale aromas. Creamy hop finish.
2. Cask Stillage at the Old Broken Cross, Rudheath 11/07/2002
Amber golden coloured with some sour fruit aroma. Hoppy with a slightly dry malt finish.
3. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black JDW, Northwich 08/05/2011
Hoppy and fruity aroma. Golden coloured hoppy and fruity with a grapefruit flavour. A hint of dryness in a bitter malt finish.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask, Market Porter, Southwark. Another change of owners for this famous scooping pub. It is now clean and tidy with all rubbish cleared away and broken bits mended. I should imagine it will go back into the Good Beer Guide as soon as possible. The beer was in excellent condition. A lovely hoppy ale - light and refreshing. Some juicy citric flavours overlap in a cascade of floral notes, all held in place with a clean and sweet malt base. Delightful. (I fought hard not to use the word complex, but that was what I was thinking the whole time.)
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sampled cask-conditioned at the Dispensary, Liverpool...Bright amber, respectable aromatics for a cask ale; fresh-tasting, fruity (raspberry, pear), refreshing. They’ve got a great yeast at this brewery that really delivers fruity complexity.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Hoppy aroma just leaping out of the glass, giving it that lockerroom-sprayed-with-industrial-air-freshener smell that gets the testosterone humming. A bitter punch in the finish, to match. Light yellow color (no marks there) but an appropriate level of carbonation and a meaty flavor, suggestive of cottage pie or perhaps an artificial interpretation of ’meat’ flavor (e.g., chicken-flavored crisps/potato chips) (on tap at Turf Tavern, Oxford)
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