2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Amber with slight white head. Tinny malty bitter with a yeasty finish. It just seems unfinished and is very dull. Disappointing.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Nice fruitful aroma, but is less stated in its taste - more so in the aftertaste.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Rich fruity, malt aroma with yeasty notes. Amber colour with a frothy white head and lace. Malt, fruit flavour. Rich brown sugar with an ever so delicate of hop. Syrup texture. Very tasty beer with lasting wine gums and smoked earth.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled, from Llanberis. Hazy amber, small head. Caramelly nose. Medium bodied with well rounded mouthfeel. Notes of cellar and hay. Marked resiny bitterness. Solid bottle conditioned bitter.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
On cask at JDW, Llandudno. Strong taste of toffee/caramel, excellent complexity of taste. Very good.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. Amber colour with a mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is wooden, bready and caramel malty along with some mild nutty and floral notes. Flavour is rather nutty with some caramel, mildly bready notes along with some slight syrup and quite bitter wooden finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Market Porter, London
Some toffee an hairsalon.
Pretty sweet and grassy.
Light to medium bitterness along with some notes of oak barrells.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle conditioned from Conwy Tesco. Clear russet with a dissipating cream layer. Fresh rust and demerara scent at first; margarine at the edges, becoming doggy with the bits in. And my god are there some terrifying floaties lurking at the bottom of this mutha. Flavour buttery in a good way-plenty of caramelised and cookie notes; distinct rust, blackberry, almond and brown sugar creeping in, drainpipe. Balanced and rounded. Just wish I hadn’t unleashed The Bits.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned handpump Moon On The Square Northampton. An amber coloured beer with a whitish head. The aroma is very thin. It’s slightly malty in the mouth with a hint of fruit. very ordinary and disappointing though ultimately.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Bankers Draft (JDW), Bedford. Amber with a small white head. Sweet aroma, rather fruity with date and raisin. Very sweet malt taste, almost cloying, intensified by the fact it was served rather warm. Some late bitterness. I took my time with this one and it improved.
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