3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask, Far From The Madding Crowd summer ale festival. Yellow-gold, dense fine white head. Very pretty warm hops; melon, but sans musk. Oranges, but orange juice, with none of the bite of the skin. A fresh yellow heirloom tomato quality. Nice full hop flavor but gentle bitterness. Oranges, sweet corn. Soft palate with a nice roundness, though not particularly sweet. An interesting beer, and distinctive even among DS lineup.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Brasserie 4:20 (cask). Bellissima bionda viva, lievemente torbida, con una leggera schiuma mediamente persistente. Aroma delicatissimo, luppolatura gentile bene in evidenza, note fruttate di mela con una punta di miele e caramello. In bocca è bilanciatissima, una perfetta session beer, con note dolciastre (malto e caramello) e amare (luppolo). Lievito un po’ troppo invadente. Corpo leggero, carbonazione corretta, freschissima e beverina. Ottima golden ale.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pale golden with a small white head. Aroma of cereal with a touch of hay. Sweetish grainy flavour with herbal hops
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Gravity, Hinckley 2011, 16/09/11. Bullion gold without a head. Mildly juicy hop aroma of apricot and hay. Rich tea dunked in Darjeeling dominates the palate, which is soft, discreetly fruity, a little earthy and low in condition. Some red apple traces and almond. More a grey drizzly day in Hinckley than a Sunburst.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Cask. Pours hazy gold into an English pint. Frothy head recedes to hug rim. Sweet citrus aromas. Soft with sweet summer fruit and a lasting citrus finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, Slug & Lettuce, Leicester. Golden with a white head. Aromas are clean, grassy and floral with lemon and light malt. Flavours are grassy hops with lager-like malts. Bitter lemon with floral notes. Crisp and refreshing.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Cask Pub & Kitchen @ Pre-GBBF Kernel night. Clear yellow - white head. Bread, grassy, egg, metallic, plain, light body, tea, herbal, light flowery.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ Cask Pub and Kitchen, London. Pours clear golden with a small white head and lacings. Floral, bitter, grassy and very smooth. Ends dry.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Half, hand pulled cask served at the right drinking temperature at CP&K, Pimlico. A filmy layer at the top of a clear, light golden body. Grass with hints of malts to the nose. Hop fruity taste along with lighter notes a earthy malts. Nice rounded bitter end. Oily palate. Summer feel (London, 29.07.2011).
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pale golden ale with a thin white frohty head. Hop citrus and honey flavour. Pleasant summer ale.
3.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
[cask at Cloisters, Edinburgh] Pours clear golden yellow with a decent white head. Thin aromas of sweetish malt and grassy, almost musty hop. Golden ales are never really about the nose, more the quenching drinkability – and this one has that in spades. Almost creamy mouthfeel, it’s increasingly grapefruity following the biscuit malt front end. Extremely drinkable golden ale – exactly what you want, really [24062011]
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