2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle 275ml.
Clear medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, toffee. Flavour is light moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20111208]
1.4 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
276ml bottle at home, clear golden orange side of yellow thin head minimal lacing, faint hos on aroma taste is not all that remarkable, I think a 3.2% is a challenge worth rising to for a light ale and a bit more character would give this a niche.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Dark yellow colour with a frothy off white head. Mild malty caramel aroma. Moderate sweet malt flavour with some caramel. A lot better than expected. Breakfast beer :-)
[Bottle at Tess Riley’s in Liverpool, England]
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
275ml bottle, best before 25/12/11, drunk in December 2011. Orange amber colour. Light nutty malt aroma. Dry, light and moderately bitter on the palate. Reasonably dry. Watery mouthfeel. Difficult to find to much to say about this really. Drinkable but inconsequential.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottled. Amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is caramel, toffee and some quitee hoppyness. Flavour is bitter floral and grassy notes along with mild fruity and crisp malty notes. Rather good for bing 3.2 %.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle at Captain’s Cabin, Mayfair. Amber body with light head. Caramel nose. Nice tastes of caramel and toffee. Dry finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Fizzing amber with a tight lacing collar. Sweet caramel, grass and tea aroma with orange and honey dabs. Pleasant enough bread and honey with a cherryish back note. Slight, but at 3.2% you’ve got to make some allowances..
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Golden and poured with a medium head. Some bitterness and a thin body. Not an unpleasant drink just weak and lacking any kind of personality.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at home .. light copper ... light sweet fruit malt ... gentle sweet fruityness... quite toffee ... ligth hop... tiny metalic tinge.
1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 8/20
[275ml bottle at Letchworth Hall Hotel, Letchworth] Tried this at my mate’s wedding reception in a desperate search for a decent beer at the bar (and having already established that I didn’t much fancy the Courage Best and John Smiths...) My first mouthful of the first bottle tasted sweet and malty, with lots of caramel. I thought I was going to enjoy it, and soon finished it. Despite it having got noticeably less enjoyable with a definite papery feel towards the end, I ordered a second bottle. The taste continued to degeneate the more I drank, leaving a rather unpleasant pricly metallic bitterness in the aftertaste. I wonder if my initial enjoyment was just because it was better than the dire John Smith’s I’d finished just before? Still, this is pretty poor fare.
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