Clarks Straight Flush

Clarks
Formerly brewed at Ossett
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Wakefield, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Gold with slight head. Not a run of the mill, Clark’s this, there is a sharp citrusy note, which I normally seek, but this doesn’t seem to fit with this beer, there is a G.K tea hop note. Overall the impression is of drinking cold lemon tea with digestive biscuits.

Cask (handpump) @ The Standing Order, 62-66 George St, Edinburgh, Scotland EH2 2LR.

Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, citrus - lemon, fruity. Flavor 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. [20101029]

JDW Autumn Fest, 2010. Slightly grubby golden beer with few hops and some cereal notes. Touch of sulphur in the nose. Light, grassy and rather lagerish.

From cask at Counting House. Pours pale yellow with a small, creamy and dense head. Aroma is vague fruity. Grassy, mild citrusy and hayish hoppy flavoured. Bitter and dry. Ends dry.

Cask Conditioned Handpump Moon On The Square Northampton. A golden beer with a whitish head and lacing. A strange beer which has fizzy pineapple notes throughout. It’s quite bitter but disjointed. Not special.

Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol 3/11/10. Pale gold in colour with a slight white head. Aroma of grapefruit, lime and floral hops. Sweet, rather thin flavour with plenty more citrus fruit and a dryish finish. Ok.

Cask at the Claude du Vall (JDW), Camberley. Hazy amber with a tight off-white head that laced the glass nicely; earthy citrus aroma; sharp grapefruit flavour to start then developing into some digestive biscuits; the finish is clean and lightly bitter. An interesting pint.

Cask at The Central Bar. Pours pale, cloudy yellow with no head. Faint malt, yeast and vegetable aroma. Flavor is interesting. Quitr spicy, like autumn spices, with some bready sweetness and dry bitterness. Light bodied with soft carbonation. The finish is fruity and very doughy. Interesting and not altogether bad.

Cask at Bankers Draft (JDW), Bedford, in ’Spoons Beer Festival ’10. Bright amber. Very sweet aroma. Odd but quite appealing taste: some biscuity background, but the main impression is sweet, herby tea, with a mid bitter finish. Unusual, unexpected, but acceptable.

JDW Fest Autumn 2010.
Cask @ John Moore. Light blonde-golden colour. Aroma is vegetable hops, little malty. Flavour is light malted and vegetables, bit of fruits. Not good!