Crouch Vale Santas Revenge

Brewed by Crouch Vale
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
South Woodham Ferrers, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask, Far From The Madding Crowd winter festival. Slight hazy gold with a small, dense, just off-white cap, and a nice ring of lace. Gorgeous full fresh citrus aroma. Sun-ripened lemons, an undercurrent of raspberries. Just an extravagantly aromatic beer. Loads of citrus hop flavor, lemon up front, transitions to tangerine. A touch of catty flavor, which adds some texture. Light restrained clean malt. A fairly modest level of bitterness--it’s certainly there, but much more hop flavor than bitterness. Delicate, soft. Just a cracking good beer. Served in good shape, and a wonderfully big (but not overbearing) experience of hoppy goodness.

Cask @ Charlies Bar, Copenhagen. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a white head. Hasa fruity malty hoppy citrus aroma. Sweetish fruity malty hoppy flavor with weak hints of caramel. Has a fruity malty hoppy caramel finish.

From cask at Charlies. Pours clear and glden orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity, cornish and light grassy to hayish. Crips citrusy, light orange fruity and mild bitter. Vague sweetness. Lasting fruity and bitter far finish.

A few pints of cask ale at Christian Firtal. Almost clear golden with a small white head. Aroma of grassy hops, with fruity and floral notes and a touch of sulphur. Sweetish full bodied malt flavour with a faint caramel note and lots of hops. Mostly grassy and spicy hops, with a wooden note - English and European character. Do I even need to mention that it’s another delicious Crouch Vale beer in perfect balance - hardly surprising.

Cask @ C4, Odense. Pours clear golden with a small White head and lacings. Floral, citrussy and Grassy. Very Lemony as well. Smooth and bitter. Buiscuit and a bit of bread. Ends dry and hoppy.. Mega quaffable! The Grassyness is similar to the ones in fresh bohemian pilsners. Slight hints of butter as well.

Cask @ the Wharf, Aalborg. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - citrus and grapefruit. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 251211

Cask (handpump) @ Wenlock Arms, 26 Wenlock Road, London, Greater London England N1 7TA.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, flowers, citrus, lemon, lime. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20081228]

Cask conditioned at Far from the Madding Crowd, Oxford. Hazed Gold with white head. Poured straight from the barrel. Big, wonderfully flavoursome, clean, dry bitter, plenty going on with orange and grapefruit in the foreground and then a lemon rush, all on top of a clean dry malt as a carrier. Very tasty indeed.

Cask at Charlie’s, Cph. Very fruity and hoppy nose, with hints if light bready malts and some elderflower. Golden colored body with a bubly white head. Crisp and lemony hop flavor, with a light malty note. Very drinkable and very refrshing.

Cask at Charlies. Clear golden coloured with a lasting white head. Aroma of fruits and hops with notes of malts. Flavour of fruits and hops with notes of malts. Fruity and hoppy finish.