Cheddar Goat’s Leap

Brewed by Cheddar
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Cheddar, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottled bought at GBBF 2010. A dark golden beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of spices, malt, and sour vommit. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, elderflowers, spices, and caramel, leading to a dry roasted finish.

Bottle. Hazy gold with a firm off white head. Aromas are weetabix with woody notes and toffee. Marmalade with tea and mixed spices. Bready yeast with raisins. Flavours are toffee with low pine woodiness and lemon. Some grapefruit bitterness with herbal notes and a spicy finish. Reminded me a little of Goldminer. Pretty good.

Bottle from West Country Ales
Amber...clear....frothy white head..some lacing
Aroma - very light aroma - some spicy hops.....pale malt.....very slight citrus tang...light cereal
Taste - biscuity malt...light spicy hedgerow hops.....light toffee...bit of yeast......cereals
Palate - soft carb.....thin to medium body. Finish...light bitter...slight citrus and cereal biscuit...cleans off palate
Overall - Not a lot of flavour for the abv and not an IPA. Just slightly above average.

500ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Light amber best bitter. Some fruit. Fairly dry. Some bittering hops leading into a fruity fragrant bitterness . A drinkable beer with opal fruits flavour, though perhaps a little dry and thin for the strength.

Tried back in August ’11.
Pours a deep amber, almost bright, with a flurry of pent up carbonation raising a nice white, rocky canopy that holds well and leaves good legs. Straw, sunsoaked grains and pine initially on the nose with hints of lemon and lime, pepper and musty garden flowers. Good toasted malt base on the palate, Summer grains again, quite pasty yet the body is light. Carbonation is delicate, it’s easy to down. Light tangy citrus edge with flowerbed notes, light spice and a moderately bitter finish. I love the malt profile, but the hops are dull, the finish short, crisp. Simple and light, unexpected of an IPA so I see it more as a Golden ale. Not bad, not great! (50cL BBE 02/04/12, West Country Ales, Cheddar Gorge, Somerset)

Bottle. Bronze beer with a light head. The aroma is toffee and roasted, and the flavour is dry, vinous and roasted toffee bitter. Overall a reasonable toffee bitter. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

decent english style ipa. Nice floral hops and a pleasing bitterness. Light body and refreshing citrussy character. Happy enough to drink this whenever it’s offered!

Cask conditioned at Minehead Beer Fest ’11. Amber with white head. Fullish, roasty malt, quite bitter and drying, some alcohol notes, some leafy hop. Reasonable

bottle at jens ... copper ... thin white lacing ...soft herbal grassy hop nose ... light bitter front ... little metalic ... soft fruits ... ok but a bit dull ... growing on me ... but still a little oddness

Cask @ O’Connell’s.
Pours an unclear reddish brown colour with a white foamy head. Aroma of hops and hay. Flavour of English hops, hay and toffee. Light/medium bodied with a watery but dry bitter and grassy finish. Very easy to drink.

[500ml bottle, deli in Ullswater] Pours a dark gold – like all of their bottled beers I’ve sampled, high bottle conditioning and low carbonation. Hoppy pine aromas, on the palate it doesn’t taste strong for 5.7%, the finish is a touch thin. However, it’s a decent British-style IPA, slight bitter pine aftertaste. I’d have this again, and on cask it’s probably much better [31122010]