3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Polycask at Banbury Beer Festival, Oxon, 08-05-09 Pours gold, wonderfully farmy aroma with some juicy earthy appleness. Tastes very good, tart at times but there is a reasonable amount of sweetness in there. Most enjoyable. A7 A3 F7 P4 Ov14 3.5
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
On tap. Pours a golden color. Completely still. Aroma is ripe fruits. Apples and bananas mostly. Some chemicals as well. Taste is ripe fruits and stinky chesses. Taleggio and Gorgonzola most of all. Medium tartness and nice sweetness. Quite balanced. No carbonation.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Appearance
Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 3 Pale(1)->Dark(5) : 3 Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 1
Aroma
Intensity : 4
Yeast : 3 Bread : 3 Hay: 3 Brett : 2 Floral: 4 Wood: 3 Leather: XX Barnyard : 2 Medicine : XX Phenols: XX Cheese : XX Vinous: 3
Notes:
Caramel : XX Honey : 1 Applesauce: XX Appleskin : 3 Pear : XX Tropical FruitsXX
Flavor
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3 Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3 Juicy: 2 Sourness : 3 Bitterness: XX Farmy : 2 Complex: 3 Length : XX
Palate
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2 Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 1 Chewy: XX Sharp: 2 Chalk : XX Astringence : 3 Tea tannins : 4 Alcohol : XX
Comments: Unique offering with herbal tones and a not that dry palate with a rather astringent feel.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Barrel, GBBF 2005:
Vinegar aroma with hints of mints. Taste is sweet and very dry. A well-balanced cider.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
From the barrel at GBBF, August 2005. Straw colour. Strong farmyard aroma. Firm mouthfeel, with lots of tannic grip but plenty of residual fruit and a touch of sweetness too. Very nicely balanced.
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 16/20
Fresh, minty, farmy, herbal, apple and wood aroma. Hazy, deep, yellow-gold with a low cover of white head that fizzes out quickly. Farmy, funky, brown sugar and apple flavour is minty, herbal and woody. Dry feeling in the mouth despite plenty of residual sweetness. Barrel at GBBF 2005.
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