2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned at The Turf Tavern, Oxford. Pale gold with slight white head. This is a dull beer and typical of Clarks sharp metallic malt note. The hop is a basic vegetable note, boiled sprouts came to mind. Not very good.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. A hazy golden beer with a bubbly off-white head. The aroma is sweet malty and fruity. The flavor is sweet with notes of over-ripe fruits, some butterscotch, and a bit of metal, leading to a dry over-ripe fruity finish, which is a bit tart. The body is thin.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
From cask at Charlies. Pours slight cloudy yellow to orange with a small, off-white and lacing head. Aroma is mild hops fruity and slight earthy. Bitter and dry malt flavoured, light earthy to mouldy flavoured from back of the nose/tongue. Bitter and dry malt flavoured finish.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
A Mes rate: cask at the Ranelagh.
Orange gold with a thin bubbly head. Bland sweetish malt aroma with some hint of apple flavoured boiled sweets. Pretty much identical flavour with a faint dusty bitterness in the finish. Watery and lifeless mouthfeel. Do the brewers not try these type of beers and realise how dull they are? A rather pathetic attempt.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at The Moon Under Water (JDW), Milton Keynes. Copper gold with a small white head. Malt and grassy hop aroma. taste had a sweet maltiness with nettly hops. Background biscuit. Quite liked this, despite the sniggering Rugby themed name.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Draught at the Waterfront, Diss) Pint looked orange/copper with an off white head. Smell was minimal but a nice air of citrus hops with sweet malt. Good bitter sweet taste - well balanced, finished medium dry with a hint of sugar on the tip of tongue. I thought this was pretty good actually, very refreshing after a long day, and perfect accomplice to the salmon and brie fishcakes I was having.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask handpump at The Eagle, Cambridge. Light copper in colour with a short foamy white head. In the nose: slightly hoppy, grapefruit some sugar and a hint of biscuit malts. Thin, slightly carbonated. Bitter. Some sulphur on the end. Hoppy with a dry finish with some metal and sugar disguising the hint of malt on the end.
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