1.3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 3/20
JDW Rochester. Part of the Wetherspoons Spring Festival. I didn’t like this at all. Couldn’t even finish it. Sweet. Unbalanced. Rancid. Unpleasant. A dreadful beer.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
First tasted this in Coanes, Johnstone in May 1986. Clear rich gold in colour with a thick creamy head. Slight hint of lemony hops in the fragrant aroma. Creamy refreshing mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts deliver a malty base with a floral lemony hop. Aftertaste redolant of hop resins but no astringency in this. Finish is bitter sweet with a lemon citric note. Decent summer session ale.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Bowbar Edinburgh. Pours pale golden, with a thin white creamy head, light, floral flavors with a light bitterness. Little lingering flavor. Finishes crisp.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Bon Accord, Glasgow. Clear amber colour, small creamy white head. Aroma has some malts and grassy hops. Taste of vegetables, grassy hops. Nice smooth and a slighty bitter finish.
3 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Handpulled cask at JDW Hatch End, Harrow during their Autumn beer fest in October. Pale gold with a fine white creamy head and loads of lively conditioning. Tasted as fresh as it looked with a scottish maltiness and a subtle hoppy bitter finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Penny Black, Bicester, JDW, 11-11-07 Poured light golden good clarity with a thin white head. Nice fresh tasting beer something vegetabley about it?? but tastes good there’s something here that I cannot quite put my finger, but I like it.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask at Bankers Draft (JDW), Bedford, Wetherspoons Festival ’07. Hazy gold with a small white head. Buttery malt aroma. The taste is intensely sweet and buttery with berry fruits. Slight bitterness. Interesting, arcane, but ultimately unsuccessful.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
A Mes rate: Cask at Baker Street ’Sporks.
Clean gold with a reasonable white head. Sadly it’s all downhill from there. Diacetyl kills everything that is mildy decent. Slight burnt malt with a hoppy finish but it’s just extremely buttery and close to awful in all honesty.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Fruit, scent aroma. Not too strong. Deep golden appearance with a creamy head. Rich smooth taste, fruit, hops and wheat. Clean taste.
3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
An amber coloured brew, with a light fruity nose mellow tones and tangy orangy flavours
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
1. Cask Handpump at the Head Of Steam, Liverpool 18/06/2001
Golden coloured and sweet with a dry hoppy finish.
2. Cask Stillage at King George’s Hall, Blackburn 06/09/2001
Amber golden slightly pale with some sour fruit and a hop finish.
3. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich (JDW) 27/07/2002
Golden and sweet with a malty lasting hop finish.
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