3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20Cask @ Market Porter, Borough SE1. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with some earthy hints. Fruity malty citrus hoppy flavor with some hints of caramel. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Zzt bottle. Typical UK golden ale, more prominent in malt than hop flavours. Hint of butter. Very refreshing aftertaste. Seems like a good session beer
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at the William Webb Ellis (JDW), Twickenham - 14/04/12.
Dark golden brown with a generous dollop of off-white head.
Citrus and floral hops on the nose allied to malt.
Hoppy taste, zesty citrus, medium bodied, crisp finish.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Hand-pulled pint in ‘The 7 Star’: Carey St London, on 28th April 2012.
Struggled to enjoy this to be honest; it looked OK, an orange hue to the light brown body with a fairly good head of off-white bubbles perched on top.
The nose was flowery and fruity with lightly baked bread yeast in the mix.
The taste was also on the flowery/fruity side with a mini-hop bitterness towards the end of each sip.
Medium bodied but lacking something: too floral for my taste buds.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Cask @ Akkurat. Dried apricots... sort of dark fruitiness... flour... fresh grape in the aftertaste... a small touch of tigerbalsam... Refreshing and quite complex.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at Akkurat.
Pours golden with a small white head.
Fruity sweetness like in califonian raisins, some floralness and honney and orange cest bitterness.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
30th April 2012
Euston Tap. Light haze on this gold beer. Tidy white head. Palate is smooth and dry with a little fine carbonation. Light crisp malts supports reasonable hop. A little repressed orange - grapefruit citrus. Minerals. Finishes dry. Nicely balanced.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Craft Beer Co. reddish amber brown colour, reasonable head. Resin hop aroma. Fruity hop flavour, bitter sweet smokey aftertaste. Not bad.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask handpull, The Salmon, Leicester, 23/05/12. Orange-gold heaped with a fat stable head. Muted, orange-hinting aroma. Wow; pretty intense, deeply stewed, earthy hop character with woodland notes I’m struggling to describe..hawthorn? Softening creaminess, some chalk and Soothers not detracting from the pungently bitter finish. G+T linger. Hopped-up, slightly wonderful, strangely English stuff considering the name.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Akkurat. Somewhat hazy golden beer with a small but lasting beige head. Fruity, hoppy, grassy, bready aroma, grapes, apples, metal notes. Fresh fruity hoppy flavor, pineapples, citrus, apples, peach, metal, perfume notes. Long bitter fruity finish with pineapples and metal.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
[cask at the Caley Sample Room, Edinburgh] Light copper coloured beer, thick puffy white head. Sweet, thick passion fruit aroma. Good grassy hop bitterness on the taste initially – leading into more floral, mango flavours. Nice bitter finish on the end. Slips from one taste to the other and back without you really noticing, it has a fantastic balance. Really very nice, even viewed without my pro-Dark Star bias [12042012]
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