3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask - The Foundry, Canterbury. Poured a clear darkish amber colour with a small creamy off-white to beige head on top. Good retention, uniform lacework. Bright & crisp citrus aromas & juicy mid fruits. Lovely pithy, zesty lemon & grapefruit on the tongue. Some nuttiness in the aftertaste. Light to medium sweetish biscuity malt body, soft mouthfeel, lingering grapefruity, resinous finish. In top condition as you’d expect at a brewpub. Firm & chewy, quite juicy in the mouth before the bitterness kicks in. Drinkable, despite quite a heavy bitterness, flavourful & surprisingly rounded on the palate given the hop onslaught. Makes me quite envious that The Foundry opened a year after I graduated from Canterbury.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
30th December 2011
ChrisOs Christmas Tasting. Handbottle courtesy of Harrisoni. Clear amber beer. Residual white bubbly head. Light dry palate. Light malt, fairly neutral. Nice dried fruits underneath. Medium aggressive noble hops. Semi dry finish. Bitter linger.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Handbottle @ chriso [ chrisos festive get-together tasting ].
Clear medium amber colour with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, nutty, fruity, earthy. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20111230]
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull at the Foundry Brewpub. Clear copper amber colour with lasting thin near white head. Aroma of tropical fruits but some sweetness too. Flavour is mostly a butter with very miderate tropical fruit and then pretty bitter on the finish. Fine but still mostly a fairly harsh bitter than a delicious tropical fruit odyssey
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at Egham Beer Festival on 18 August 2011. Amber colour. Cloudy, a bit murky in fact. Pleasant hoppy notes on the nose. Tropical fruit evident - mango and lychee with a twist of citrus. Firm and hoppy on the palate with a distinct lemony edge. Extremely bitter. Mouthfeel is a touch thin though. Promising, if a little rough round the edges.
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