Derventio Emperor’s Whim

Brewed by Derventio
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Derby, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle. Golden with a small head. Aromas are bitter citrus with light caramel and butter malts with cream. Quite peppery. Flavours are buttery malts with lots of spritzy yeast and woody notes. Very bitter citrus on the finish with pine. A bitter bitter.

From Jan 2009: The second beer from this brewery to be reviewed by me today. Clear 500ml bottle (bottle conditioned), best before 2 Feb 09, so two weeks of its life left when drank. Poured into a straight pint glass, with very little sediment getting into the glass. Dull golden colour, slighty hazey and with a large foaming white head. This beer is all about hops, Cascade and WGV are used and they come through into the nose as soon as the bottle opens. A real English bitter taste, hoppy and dry, very impressive. Good feel to this beer, a whole lot better than the first beer I reviewed from them. One more to go (today).

500ml bottle. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is grass and butter. Taste has grass to start and a strong bitter grassy finish.

Cask conditioned at Far From the Madding Crowd, Oxford. Gold with white head. Quite a juicy, fruity beer with a hint of strawberry hoppinesss. Certainly pretty reasonable.

Cask-conditioned at the Three Tuns, Bristol 3/07/10. Deep amber with a slight, white head. Biscuity malts, some berry fruit, a touch of orange and some grassy hops, leading to a decent bitter finish. Good.

cask at guilford ... amber creamy white head ...soft toffe hop ... bitter soft lenonfront ... soft lemon hop ... little thin ... little bitter

Bottle 500ml. @ Fastelavnssmagning, Ulfborg.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, fruity, butter notes, light to moderate hoppy, citrus - orange. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100220]

Bottle @ Fastelavnssmagning, Ulfborg. Pours unclear golden with a small bubbly white head. Nose is bread and floral hops. A bit of butterscotch.

Clear golden with a tiny off white head. Sweet fruity aroma with malty and caramel. Sweet malty flavour with grassy hops and piney notes. Finished bitter.

Bottled. A golden beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of straw, metal, and a bit of malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of fruits, malt, straw, and more, leading to a very dry finish. The body is light.

Bottle, 4.2%. Weak grassy aroma hop, hint of vegetable perhaps even butter. Almost clear golden colour. Very small white head. The flavour is nicely grassy, better and more powerful than the aroma.