2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Hand pulled at the Anchor, Birmingham. Dark brown bitter, with a quarter inch cream top. Creamy aroma. Banana malt flavour. Standard stuff really. Unresponsive carboard dry finish. Some sweet and cream. Bland.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned handpump Star Geddington. An amber coloured beer with a whitish head and lacing. The aroma is fruity and malty with berry notes. It’s the same in the mouth. Good berry fruitiness. A tasty Wintery beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@The Harborough Hotel, Melton Mowbray. Golden brown beer with a strongish head. The aroma and flavour is yeasty and dry. Overall a nice yeasty and dry beer.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask, The Harboro Hotel, Melton Mowbray. Copper with a dense head. Aromas are toffee malts with pepper and sulphur. Some metallic notes. Flavours are sweet toffee and caramel malts. Floral with some damp notes. Average.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Conditioned, at the Market Porter, London.
Amber body with medium speckled head. Moderate hop aroma. Citrus zing on the tongue. Reasonable refreshing for this strength bitter, they can often be too heavy.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
1. Cask Handpump at the Kelham Island Tavern, Sheffield 06/10/2003
Copper mid brown colour and very fruity. Hoppy with a lasting slightly dry malt finish.
2. Cask Handpump at the George & Dragon, Great Budworth 13/04/2004
Mid brown very smooth and slightly fruity. Some bitterness and dryness in a malt finish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask Conditioned at The Cwellyn Arms, Rhyd Ddu, Gwynedd, Wales. Brown in clour with thick white head. Sweet malty beer but a touch bland and tasteless. Short lasting and flabby.
By now I was comatose anyway after the climb and several pints.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned @ JDW Soton. Raisins toasty malt. Medium dry with moderate bitter finish. Thick creamy body. Good to start with but flavours fade into blandness.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: DEC 17, 2006 Reddish colour. Dark, malty aroma. Fresh flavour with some hop bite, but nothing too assertive. Quite fruity. Like many Cottage beers, I found this respectable, but unexciting. Cask (handpump), Red Lion, Isleworth. (6/3/6/3/12).
RE-RATE. Handpump at The Raven, Bath, April 2006. Showing better. Deep copper colour. Strong malty aroma. More hops come though on the palate - earthy and citric at the same time. Some late liquorice too. (7/3/6/4/14). Average of the two scores given.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@The Red Lion, Isleworth, London. Some light toffee and butterscotch, some malt sourness. A bit flat and grainy.
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