3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20Cask @ CPK. Light amber color with a small, creamy white head. The nose is quite grassy, plenty of hops and cheesy notes. Some lemon rind. The taste is light balanced malts, with a bitter lemon hop finish. Citrus, grapefruit. Yeast is present. Overall, decent, but nothing special from this great brewery.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A good variety of hoppy flavours - citrus, orange and grapefruit, copper on the aftertaste. Also quite bitter-sweet. Not bad.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Bronze and clear with a small head. Quite bitter and hoppy with a
bitter aftertaste. Pleasant but slightly too bitter for my personal taste.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Dark golden pour. Big white head. Plenty of lacing. Huge hop presence. Apricots and white grapes. Malty taste with the same awesome hop-ness. Nice beer. Very nice.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
[Gift from Maureen (cheers!) from the Selsey off license] Light amber with a negligible white head and a moderate fizz. Tropical fruit aroma carries on into the flavor with spicy orange notes and a growing but well-balanced bitterness. Like many Dark Star beers I’ve tried, it’s decent but not world-beating - not quite up to their formidable reputation.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
330ml bottle. Clear orangey dark golden to copper colour with huge, firm, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lasting, white head. Piney hop aroma, some grapefruit, a herbal touch. Taste is dry to bitter hoppy, piney, herbal, slightly fruity, subtle caramel malt sweetness.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at Craft Islington, 12th April 2013. Pours fairly dark, red orange, sweet citrus aromas, taste is sweet some bitterness, with a strong sweet malt finish. Decent IPA
3.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(33 cl bottle from Utobeer @ Borough Market; BBD: March 25th 2014) Pours a lively, clear golden with medium, white head. Aroma malty with subdued notes of fruity hops and a strange cheesy hint. Oily texture, medium body and a bitter finish. Taste is somewhat sweet and malty with moderate bitterness.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Southampton Arms, Gospel Oak, 30/03/13.
Clear golden amber with a medium sized off white head that reduces to a film.
Nose is caramel malt, hops, grapefruit, orange.
Taste comprises hops, sugars, orange, juicy grapedfruit, citrus notes.
Medium bodied with bite, moderate carbonation, hop bitterness in the finish.
Decent - so so much better than the 2nd rate bottled offering, if ever there was a beer to split and prove how good a well kept cask is when compared to the bottled version this would be my pick!
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Light amber small to average and fully diminishing head. Moderate, malty and sweetish aroma, caramel and some tropical fruitiness, grapefruit - some citrus hoppyness. Body is medium, malty and caramel sweetish flavor, some tropical fruitiness, some grapefruit - piney hoppyness Finish is average, malty and sweetish, caramel, light fruitiness, some grapefruit - piney hoppyness. Caramel sweetish IPA - too much caramel for me/not dry enough.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
330ml bottle bought at The MicroBar in Manchester last summer. Pours a clear copper coloured body joined by a good lacing, off-white, partially persisting head. Pleasant aroma of peaches, fresh apricots, and oranges mingled with caramel sweetness. Well hopped taste of mild grapefruits and peaches offset by mid-sweet malts. Rather sharp bittersweet finish. Medium bodied. A well blended ale, cleverly made (at home, Tromsø 27.03.2013).
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