3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (handpump) @ Pennybacks, B1, Birmingham. Clear medium yellow orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light malty, hay, moderate hoppy, flowers, grass, and some toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Very nice dry finish and very hamonic. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. ;o))
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
1. Cask Handpump at the Head Of Steam, Liverpool 18/06/2001
Golden coloured and hoppy. Sweet citrus finish.
2. Cask Handpump at the Bar Fringe, Manchester 20/07/2002
Golden with some wheat flavour. Slightly sweet with a dry hop finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Conditioned at The Kings Arms, Arundel. Dirty yellow colour with thin head. A fruity, tangy, refreshing beer, orange notes. A little bitterness which lasts.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught (Carlton Arms, Cambridge)
Light Ale, no head. Sweet light malty taste, pleasant bitter finish, anma malt too
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Golden amber colour. Odd aroma - grassy hops and fruit, but something else I couldn’t quite identify in the background. Reasonable balance of malt and hop on the palate. Dry finish. Perfectly respectable, but nothing special. Cask (handpump), Head of Steam, Euston, London NW1.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
A Sim Rate (on tap at Doric Arch): Aroma is perfumy. Raspberries and peach. Same for the flavour.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
cask at the Spread Eagle, Hereford. Amber colour, small white head. Malty nose. Malty with a touch of honey and a dry hoppy finish.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Half, cask at Crescent in Salford. Near-clear, dark golden body. Firm lasting, white head. Spotty lacework. Bready and fruity hops to the nose. Fresh fruity taste of peaches added by grainy malts. Dry bittersweet ending. On par with the style, more or less (Greater Manchester, 22.01.2013).
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
The Old Windmill, Coventry. Heady, woodsy, almost Belgian-like snout of lime jelly, orange rind, marmalade. Cloudy orange with a thick sparkler head. Slick golden milky hoppage. Earthy, soft, pithy and resinous with biscuity malt rounding it all out. Good one.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Handpull at The White Horse on Parsons Green. Clear still-looking amber with no head. Sweet apple aroma and taste, a bit of black tea, no alcohol or bitterness at all. Slick, light, still - finishes quick, lightly sweet and a bit floral. Not bad.
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