3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (gravity dispense). Beer #28 at Cambridge Winter Beer Festival on 21 January 2011. Gold in colour with a slight haze. Clean, with some citrus. A decent enough, easy-drinking golden ale, if nothing particularly out of the ordinary. Judging from previous comments, this may not have been at its best on this occasion.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@Market Porter, London. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is some mild maltyness with mild floral and nectary notes as well. Flavour is herbal, malty, floral and mild bready notes as well. Mild bitterness. Overall quite mild flavour. Watery palate.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Gravicask (Cambridge Winter Ale Festival 2011)
Nothing exceptional about this, but certainly a pretty OK pale bitter to have if you’re not after anything too fancy. Aroma hoppy, but not to a silly extent. Light gold. Taste and finish are mostly the hops, as the aroma suggested.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (handpump) @ Harlequin, 108 Nursery Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire England S3 8GG.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to light light heavy hoppy, green grass, orange - citrus, lime. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, hoppy peel bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100426]
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask, Leicester 2010 (Sat night). Straw with a creamy and persistent white cap. Aroma: fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice and stemmy greenery; flavour has hints of chip batter, cashews, excellent deep husky malts, a trace of smoke, even...all absolutely festooned with grapefruit, passion fruit and lychee. Top drop: DruncanVeasey’s Beer of The Festival, no less.
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