3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
I have to say I had a pint from the cask and really enjoyed. Color was a nice red with a quickly disappearing head. Overall aroma was heavy on the malt and caramel, but a faint smell of what I thought were plum, pear, and crab apple.
Taste was nice...fruit taste translated very faintly, but had a nice earthy taste with a strong cereal taste...yeast had a nice faint earthy/fieldy taste that complimented some of the sweetness of the hops/malt. Palate was certainly on the short side, relatively light and thin. As it came from the cask it was a bit soft.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at George Inn, London
Deep amber with a small tan head.
Light on toffee and some grass.
Some nutty hoppiness along with notes of chocolate(?).
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask (Bree Louise, London)
5 Acetic and treacle.
4 Rich red, no head.
5 A bit metallic.
3 Sweet, and sticky due to no carbonation.
10 Way past its BB. Should rerate.
2.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Dark amber with a small off white head. An attractive sweet creamy malt aroma with a hint of plum pudding. However the aroma misled me, and the taste was grim dreary earth and water, with a mid bitter finish.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask, The Cricketers - Chelmsford
White lacing; copper-brown colour, floral and herbal aroma with biscuit and toffee. Taste is toffee; caramel, soy source, syrup, chocolate and rasins. Interesting but a bit bland.
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