3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: JUL 6, 2011 Bottle from SH Jones Wines, Leamington, shared round The Jenners with Keith. Clean bronze in good nick with a well-retained off white head. Slightly buttered aroma at first but with good cinder toffee and herbal hop notes as it warms. Clean woodsy hop on the palate with hints of aniseed. Bitter finish. "Dry hopped with American citrus hops"?? Not my bottle it ain’t. Unexciting bog standard bitter.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
50cl bottle thanks to Lewis. Pours honey brown and thin lace head. The nose has toffee and crunchie bar even. The taste has more of the toffee. The palate is medium bodied, medium textured and has a clean finish. Overall, a well made bitter.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
(Bottle, 0.5 l - BBE Feb 2012, courtesy of rosenbergh, 20120320) The beer poured pale amber and clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had malts, paper, caramel and herbalness. Palate was medium bodied with lowish carbonation. Flavours were herbalness, fruitiness, malts, caramell, bisquit and bitterness. Aftertaste was malty, sweet and bitter. I don’t know how this beer would have been like had it been fresher. Now, when past its best before date, it was quite odd brew.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
50cl bottle from Westholme Stores, Goring. Amber with a thin cream head; the aroma is predominantly of stewed malts, but with perhaps a whiff of citrus; in the mouth it’s dry with caramel malt flavours and some spicy hops giving a dry and bitter finish. Promising, but over pasteurised - I’ll look out for the cask version.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.
Clear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, dry, fruity - tobacco. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110429]
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
[500ml bottle, Drinkmonger Edinburgh] Amber pour, very thin head. Goes flat very quickly. Aromas of diacetyl and sweet caramel, vaguely toffee note on the palate. Caramel and coppery metallic flavours, no real hop in evidence. Not great [01122011]
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
A - CARAMEL A - dark amber with thin head T - sweet caramel with light fruit P - mid and soft O - decent
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
bottle at home ... copper ... thin lacing ... soft sweet syrupy suger toffee malt nose ... soft sweet caramel ... some oddoily herbal ness ... not me
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Golden with a small white head. Fruity aroma with a grainy malt touch. Dry and grainy flavour
1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 6/20
Bottled. An amber coloured beer which pours with no head. The aroma has a shed load of diacetyl whereas there is rubbery fruit in the mouth. Pretty bitter in the mouth too. Really badly balanced and unpleasant. Is full of body which is its one redeeming thing.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Copper body, white head. Aroma is mainly malty with nuts and butter. Taste continues the same maltiness. They say its dry hopped with american hops, but I’m not finding the hops.
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