3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20Cask at Anchor Sidmouth. Deep golden, hoppy aroma. Light-bodied, malty with shy hop flavours in the finish
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
The Crown at Henlow Bedfordshire. Pours a dark amber brown colour with a small white head, aroma is malty and a hint of biscuit, the taste is sweet and soft with malt with a dry finish.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
What Dogbomb said, only more so. Not my cup of tea, thought the citrus characteristics clashed badly with the maltiness.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask. Bronze ale with a thick offwhite head. Hoppy nose with a little lemon/lime. Light and hoppy in the taste. Nice by a bit boring with a long bitter finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ The Standing Order (JDW), 62-66 George St, Edinburgh, Scotland EH2 2LR.
Clear medium amber yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, pale nut peel, butter. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, nutty peel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120423]
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
The Red Deer, Sheffield, 01/01/13. Clear bronze ringing with lace. Soft hedge-like, caramel, sappy aroma. Mineral tang, thistle sap, slight saltiness, white bread, cocktail cherry hints. OK.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours clear amber with a off White head. Bisquit, phenolic Smoke , grain and caramel. Thin.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at Christian Firtal. Hazy amber with a small white head. Malty aroma with toffee and grain and a faint fruity note. Dry and malty flavour with a grainy touch, and a somewhat unpleasant tannic, possibly roasted dryness, along with a faint hoppy finish
2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tasted this in Tennents Bar, Glasgow in December 2012. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear pale copper in colour with a thin foam white head. Poor aroma with just a whiff of malt hidden in there somewhere. Very thin mouthfeel and slight lacing noted. Pale malts give a short maltloaf base with sweet clemantine fruit in evidence but very little else. Very short hop prickle with peppery notes in the briefest of aftertastes. Finish is malty but far too thin overall - might have been a touch of toffee in there but hard to pin down. It is again sweet in the mouth with clemantine fruit again but has a distinct dry oak cask note coming through in the mouth. This is a poor effort from Caledonian, completely lacking in depth and complexity and the 4% ABV should not be an excuse.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ The Swan, Hammersmith W6. Pours a clear amber color with a small longlasting off-whit ehead. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(Cask at The Three Compasses,London) Dark amber/copper colour, small off-white head. Aroma is nutty/malty caramel. Taste of malty caramel dry bitter, medium body. Not bad overall but nothing special.
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