3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask gravity, ’All Creatures Great and Small’ festival, The Merchant’s Inn, Drugby. Headless red amber. Beeswaxy oak aroma. Slick, mellow and oaky with wholemeal, faint chocolate and butter biscuit, some honey coated wheat. Odd but good.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught (Carlton Arms, Cambridge)
Between orange and red, no head. Sweet coffee aroma, something savoury too. Taste is mysteriously coffee-like too and also that odd savoury flavour I can’t place. Leaves a brown finish - some nuttiness.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Stillage at the Lowes Arms, Denton 23/07/2004
Amber coloured with some fruit flavour. Dry lasting malt finish.
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Gravity @ 32nd Cambridge Beer Festival, UK. 25th May 2005
Amber. Hoppy flowery aroma. Good balanced and smooth taste. Fairly close to Brakspears Bitter. Easy and fresh aftertaste with a hint of manure (in a positive way!).
2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A mellow, malty, toffee tasting amber beer with no obvious hops. (Cask @ Lowes Arms, Denton)
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cambridge Beer Festival. Gravity. Brand new brewery, just opened in Cambridge. As far as I’m aware this is the first beer offered by Moonshine, and this came on for the first time while I was there. So I am one of the very first to have a beer from this brewery. Well, it’s a darkish caramel coloured best bitter with caramel notes and a pleasant dusting of hops. A decent enough old school style best bitter. Mmmm. Gets better.
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