Crouch Vale Apollo

Brewed by Crouch Vale
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
South Woodham Ferrers, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask, CBC, brixton. Clear, deep gold colour with white fairly creamy head. Honey, biscuity sweet malt aroma. Some hops too but not as much as expected. Sweet toasted bread malt taste, honey again and fruit hops followed by some citrus bitterness. Well balanced and pretty tasty. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium orange colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, tropical fruit, grass. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120808]

Bottled@chriso. Golden colour small white head. Aroma is fruity, grassy, grainy and mild floral notes. Flavour is fruity, spicy and mildly herbal and floral. Pleasant sweet malts along with some slight citrusy and peachy notes.

(Bottle) Crystal clear, light gold. Pours thick, white head, diminishing, but lasting. Mid-light carbonation. Aroma - Intense, spicy, american hops; grapefruit and a fairly strong tropical aroma; lychees! (yum!), and a sweet, bready/biscuity malt: Nice, balanced, sweet and fruity aroma, fairly strong. A pretty creamy body for this strength, quite oily too, bit of light carb on the tongue and lips. Good tropical and spicy hop flavours, sweet malt, with a slightly dry, refreshing finish. Nice balance, though just a tad sweet (but pleasant). Very drinkable, without compromising on flavour - Crouch Vale seem to be pretty good at this with their golden ales and bitters.

Cask @ the Wharf, Aalborg. Clear light amber with a lasting white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and rather hoppy - peach and grapefruit. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. Fantastic for such a low ABV. 110212

Bottle at home. Actually got this Christmas Eve as a present but have only just got around to opening it. It pours a wonderful light amber with golden edges and a billowing cloud of an off-white head caused by the big clump of least from the bottle conditioning. This stays like a fluffy crouton down the whole glass creating some wonderful lacing. I let the yeast slip into the glass by accident and it went straight to the bottom without spoiling the clarity of the beer. There’s a rush of grapefruit, grapefruit peel and lime in the aroma but also the faintest whisper of yeast. A gorgeous but subtle wave of light grapefruit and lime then washes across the tongue tingling the tastebuds everso slightly. This leaves a dry sweetness without much bitterness and disappears gradually and sofly. A light and refreshing Golden Ale.

From cask at Christian Firtal. Hazy amber with a lasting white head. Grassy/herbal hop aroma with tangerine fruity overtones. Sweetish fruity flavour with grassy and wooden hops, and a pretty aggressive bitterness. A to9uch of breadcrust maltiness in the finish

Cask @ C4, Odense. Pours clear Golden with a small creamy bubbly head. Floral hoppy nose. Grapefruit , Peach and bready malts. Dry , crisp and bitter hop flavor. Smooth. C - vale quality S’s always!

From cask at Charlies. Pours loudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is citrusy to peachy fruity. Bitter, crisp hoppy of citrusy and peachy fruity flavours. Bitter, fruity and rather dry yet with a sweet citrusy impression. Smooth fruity finish.

A - melon and citrus A - gold with clinging head T - light sweet, full bitter P - mid and dry O - ehh...