2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned at The Woolpack, Banbury.Copper to amber with white head. I found this to be a little dull, a malty thin bitter with a caramel toffee background. A burnt sweetness with a yeasty note. Drinkable but just not exciting.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Being a Cropredy Festival ... i just had to have this one when i saw it ... bottle at home ... copper thin white head ... metalic hop nose ... thin metalic fruit hop ... all i dislike about bitters ... not unpleasant ... just dull.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask Handpump at the New Oxford, Salford 17/03/2008
Floral aroma. Amber coloured with some acidic taste. Slightly pale with a little dryness in a crisp and bitter malt finish.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Clear medium amber color with a average, fizzy - frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, rancid malt, medicine. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (030508)
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
The Harvester, Long Itchington ’08. Amber brown measure. Similar nutty caramel notes to the Rugby, but much sweeter. Hints of barrel and slightly vinous fruit. Vanilla, creamy malt, Innis and Gunn sweetness. Not bad at all.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Glenrothes BF 08. Clear chestnut with a thin filmy head. Sweet malt, fruity. Mouth is malty, coating with some brambley fruit and soft bitterness. Really quite good.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Reading Beer Festival 02-05-08 following a two hour queue to get in grrrr! Pours light amber almost orangey in colour with off white head. This is an interesting beer in that it has some soap like qualities in the mouth and yet I still like it, there is a soft maltiness and the bitterness is really quite restrained but for my first beer from this brewery that is quite local to me I found it a very decent effort.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask-conditioned at the Bag O’Nails, Bristol 20/4/08. Deep copper coloured with a slight, off-white head. Aroma of caramel and red fruit. Flavour had plenty of sweetness with some doughy malt, fruit and a bitter finish. Enjoyable.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Leicester BF. A copper coloured beer with a sweetish malty nose which showed signs of alcohol. The taste has sweet flavours and some biscuity malt. Quite dry and short but OK.
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