2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Copper red with a creamy head. It is fairly smooth with a sweet berry aroma.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask conditioned handpump White Horse London 23/11/12. A ruby coloured beer with a whitish head. A malty Irish ale type beer. A dry and slightly toasty nose. It’s the same in the mouth. It’s dull and really old fashioned.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask by gravity at Drum and Monkey Ale Festival - clear brown ale, thin white head, fruity malty aroma and flavour, hint of apple, easy to drink
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On cask @ the Haymarket. Pours a dark amber with a nicely proportioned head. The nose has apples, toffee and a backbone of biscuits. The taste is more grapes and biscuits. The palate is medium bodied with a creamy texture and a relatively refreshing finish. Overall, a decent bitter.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at The White Hart, Nicholson’s, London. Pours clear, red-gold with a fine, creamy white head. Tangy leaves in the nose. Light sweet flavor, some toasty dough, plenty of citric and leafy bitterness, light grass. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Surprsingly sturdy bitterness to finish, with more bready, doughy malts, lots of tangy leaves. Tastes kind of cheap, and it really doesn’t bring me much joy to drink this beer.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ Haymarket, Edinburgh 261012
REc copper, off white head, some lacing
Aroma of caramel malts, soft fruity malts
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Taste of caramel malts, some toasted malts, touch of brown fruity malts, some bitter English hop, bit watery though
Palate - soft carb, thin body. Light bitter palate. Finish as main flavour with some light toasted malts
Overall - OK bitter perhaps a touch bland
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
cask at haymarket ... ruby ... thin creamy tan head ... soft sweet toffee malt fruits ... mellow soft toffee malt ... little thin ... soft fruits ...
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Slight roast malt aroma. Crystal clear deep copper with beige head. Medium bodied with hint of caramel and good hop balance.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bronze red with a creay thick lasting beige head. Smell of plum, medium malt and juice. Creamy oily body, flat. Taste of Plum, peach. Juicy with no bitterness or sourness. Lasting malt finish. Juicy sweet.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Tried this in the Aragon Bar, Glasgow in March 2006. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear ruby red in colour with a thin creamy white head. Slight berry fruit in the short aroma. Thin zingy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a fiery malt base with tart redcurrant fruit. Strong metallic notes in the bitter aftertaste along with hard water salts give an astringent rusty flavour. Finish is woody with hints of dry vanilla oak cask. An ok session bitter, but much prefer the Winter Tipple though.
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