3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle conditioned, 500ml from Phoenix Wines, Swanage, Dorset. Slightly muddy brown with no head. Not the greatest looking beer but flavourwise pretty reasonable. Sharpish malt notes which then lean to fruity, wine gum like,then a flowery hop. Good stuff.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at NWAF 2009. A pale brown beer with no head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and fruit - among them light citrus fruits. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and fruit, leading to a dry bitter finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (gravity) @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester, England.
Clear medium to dark amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, fruity - berry sweet. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat to soft. [20090122]
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Brewer’s Droop, Bristol. Bronze coloured with a decent, but short-lived, off-white head. Aroma of toffee, burnt malts and a touch of banana. Full mouth feel with alcohol fairly prominent. Flavour of weetabix, molasses and a touch of spice, with a short, bitter finish and a chocolate coating left behind in the mouth. Unusual and drinkable.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
bottle from Darts Farm. Clear dark amber-brown colour, small beige head. Aroma of fruit and malt. Full-bodied with an intensive wheaty character. Malty-sweet with some spicy hops, yeast and wheat flavours. Strongly reminds me of a good German Weizenbock. A very nice English wheat ale.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Very stale, tastes pasteurised. Some lightly grassy hops or something. But kind of indestinguishable from the rest of their beers in the bottle, except stronger in flavour or soemthing. Pretty boring though.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A Mes rate. Gravicask at National Winter Ale festival. Dark brown with no head. Wheat and tobacco plenty of dark malt with a very sweet finish. Dull but inoffensive.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle.Dark with a sharp maltiness.Although it contains wheat this flavour does not dominate. An excellent full bodied beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
bottle at cropredy ... brown,very toffee malts,what an unusual wheat, sweet malts, rum and slight burnt suger that burnt taste linger which is a shame
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
BCA (from Bitter Virtue). Dark brown. Toffee and rounded fruit nose. Some sweetness from the malt with more dark toffee flavours. A little fresh wheaty tartness to end? or my imagination? Quite good.
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