Dark Star Summer Solstice

Brewed by Dark Star
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Horsham, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask handpull, Craft Beer Company, Clerkenwell. 04/04/12. Misted gold with a fluffy, honeycombing white top. Stunning, sweet spliffy aroma; cat piss, lime zest. Stewed sweaty lime and Darjeeling flavour; husk, mandarin. Perfumed and dryingly bitter at once. Really good.

Cask (Oliver Twist, Stockholm) - Golden in colour. Grapefruit, tea and hops in the aroma. Very refreshing taste with notes of lemon, tea, pineapple and grapefruit. Very enjoyable.

Cask @Angleterre. poured clear golden with a frothy white head. Lots of lemon in aroma. Flavor is more lemon and some grapefruits also. Ends dry and bitter. Another excellent ale from Dark Star. Very mild, but refreshing and drinkable.

Cask at Merton Summer Beer Festival, 16-07-10 Pours gold but a little hazy, white head atop. It was suggested that I gave this one a go by a CAMRA friend of mine who felt that whilst fine this was really quite an underwhelming beer from Dark Star. I tried it and initially agreed, but then I tried again and I think you had to get to know this one a little, it seemed quite subtle and needed time. There were some light lemony frgarances and the mouth had some lemon also but restrained along with a little wheatiness, smooth, and less hoppy than you might like but a good if unexceptional beer. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3

Cask at the Cask Pub & Kitchen, 15th June 2010. Rather flat amber. Nose has grain, herbs. Strange taste - there’s grapefruit but also a very mealy flavour. This just didn’t feel right, one to re-rate in future.

Tap at the Evening Star, Brighton on 31 May 2010. Slightly hazy old with thin part-lacing head. Bitter and citric with coriander kick. Quite a bitter finish with a tangy end on a light mouthfeel.

15th June 2010. Cask & Kitchen. Hazy gold beer. No real head. Wet dog nose. Light dry palate. Sweetish malt with some honeyish orange. Low carbonation. Finishes dry.

Cask at CASK Pub and Kitchen, Pimlico. Hazy golden, small head. Green apples aroma. Biscuit and apples flavours. Good dryness. Quite interesting and fulfilling for its strength.

A Mes rate: cask at the Rake.
Typically awesome Dark Star stuff. Clean gold with a thin but lasting bright white head. Superb condition. Wheat and lemon, stunning spice, excellent hops, equally great malt. All in perfect harmony. Really good all round.

Cask-conditioned at Blackfriars, Glasgow 28/06/09. Golden coloured with a decent white head. Aroma of oranges, apricots, straw and a hint of spice. Flavour began with sweetish malt, before more fruit, a hint of ginger and green herbs and a big, hoppy finish. Great stuff.