3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask - West Gate Inn (JDW), Canterbury. Poured dark amber with a loose & frothy, one finger white head. Nutty malt & currant aromas. A caramel sweetness up front, some biscuit in the middle and a dry, short hop bitterness on the finish. Light to medium body with low carbonation. Light and fruity and a fair thirst quencher.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle 50 cl. Pours a clear amber with a white head. Nutty aroma. Medium body, a little roasty, again nutty, a metallic edge, and a surprisingly bitter finish. 310312
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Hazy amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and moderate hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 310312
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is toasted malty caramelish. Bitter and dry caramelish. Bitter and toasted malty. Toasted and dry roasted malty finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle @ FOneFan. Clear deep amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, fruit and a little toffee. Flavour is malt, caramel, fruit, medium sweet, little toffee and a little bitter.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Ludicrously described as "dark brown" on the bottle label, this pours a dark orange, with a thin white head that very quickly dissipates. Aroma is hops and fruit, chocolate. Bitter. Dry, dusty, dirty finish. Summer quaffing.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 7/20
4.1% amber colour with a thin head, malty aroma and a caramel malt taste, quite good.
2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle, from Rhythm & Booze Barton-upon-Humber. Deep copper gold, thin shortlived white head and low condition. Gentle sweet caramel and toffee in the nose, slightly thin and tinny in the mouth initially but some caramel sweetness returns, short finish with some gentle roasted barley bitterness.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle (this is definitely not cask only). Pours a clear chestnut brown, with a small off-white head, which fades fairly quickly, but does leave some lace behind. The aroma is quite simple, but fairly appealing, offering a mix of toffee and light floral notes. It is not an especially hoppy bitter, although it does have some mild spice and floral hops up front. These give way to toffee and caramel malt notes in the body. A touch of citrus does come in towards the finish, joining the malt flavours. This is quite a straightforward bitter. It has all the typical hallmarks of the style, and does everything one would expect, and it is a passable beer. What it fails to do is go that little bit further to make it a really interesting bitter. Instead, it is a fairly simplistic example.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 500ml. @ home.
Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, toffee, light to moderate hoppy, grass. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, nutty notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111226]
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
First tasted this in the Tap & Spile, Harrogate in April 1991. Clear light mahogany in colour with a thin creamy white head. Cask, handpump dispense. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Mixed malts give a rich maltloaf base with roast grain, treacle toffee, molasses, dates, and muscovado sugar. Slight hop prickle in the short aftertaste but this soon fades. Finish is again malty with strong smokey caramel notes. An excellent Brown Ale and well recommended.
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