City of Cambridge Michaelmas

City of Cambridge
Formerly brewed at Elgoods
Style: Bitter
Chittering, England

Serve in English pint

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BCA (from Bitter Virtue, BBE Feb 07). Red brown appearance. Toffee and sweet malts. A hint of hops in the finish, lots of yeasty flavours. Overall slightly lacking in character.

Bottled. A hazy orange-amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of straw and caramel, as well as light notes of fruit. The flavor is sweet malty with light notes of burnt malt and herbs as well as a slight acidity, leading to a dry bitter finish.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 3     Pale Yellow(1)->Dark brown(5) : 3     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 2   White(1)->Tan(5) : 2   Lasting: 2   Lacing : 1
Aroma:
Intensity : 2  
Yeast : 3   Bread : 2   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Soap : XX   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX Sulfur : XX  
Malt : 3   Biscuity : 2   Hay : XX   Toasty : XX   Caramel : XX   Nuts : XX   Honey : XX   Cereals : 2   Grainy : XX
Hops : 4   Noble(1)->American(5) : 2   Leafy : 2   Spicy : 2   Floral : XX   Lemon/Lime : XX   Grapefruit : XX   Orange : 3   Herbal : 3   Grassy : XX   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX  
Notes :   Peach/Apricot : XX   Earth : XX   Mint : 2   Butterscotch : XX   Smoke : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Sourness : XX   Bitterness : 2   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 3   Clean : XX   Sharp : XX   Watery : XX   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : XX   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: Bottle. Minty, mineral and rather stale, light-bodied, mostly flat ale.

(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of chris_o. Hazy, amber golden with a small, off-white head. Weak aroma of malt. Light and somewhat watery body, vitamin accents and a touch of nuts. The finish is dry. 100507

Bottle. (THX to Papsoe) Dark golden colour with a beige head. Aroma is hop, caramel, malt, roasted. Flavour is hop, caramel, malt. ok beer.

Bottle. (at papsoe’s pre-festival tasting) Golden-orange body, almost clear, with a small, white head. Caramel, malt and some hops in the aroma. A bit regular, but it’s not bad for a Christmas beer. Pleasant bitterness in the flavor to fill in with the malt and caramel. Medium to full body, and a finish that is mostly hopped, leaving the malt in the background. Pleasant and quaffable. (070510)

Bottle. Brown beer with a nice light head. The aroma is very lightly chocolatey, and the flavour is smooth, lightly dry and very slightly fruity. Overall a nice smooth beer.

Bottled. Well, this is appearntle another infected beer from Cambridge. It pours out in hazy reddish amber body with a low white head. Sour aroma with notes of oranges and green apples. Harsch sour flavour of green apples and oranges with faint sweet undertones of fudge. Papery and sour aftertaste. What a waste....

From A Bottle.Mahogany in colour with a small head,aroma is of dark malt,taste is smooth and malty with chocolate and nuts,dry finish.

Brownish and slightly cloudy.Pleasant slightly bitter taste with quite a few other flavours thrown in.