3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Guide Dog,Southampton) - Brown with red tinges.Fruity and hoppy aroma. Sweetish and hoppy taste with vanilla,chocolate and grapefruit. Not bad and fairly tasty.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at aberdeen beer festival ...Copper brown ... rich caramel malt nose ... sweet creamy fruity toffee ... little apple and pear ... caramlised sugers ...
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask-conditioned at the Robin Hood Retreat, Bristol 11/6/07. Chestnut coloured with a dense off-white head that left plenty of lacing. Fruity aroma followed by yet more fruit flavours with some dark chocolate and a dry finish. Very enjoyable.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull at Crosse Keys, JDW, London. Deep chestnut colour with sparsebeige head. Oddly malty but metallic beer. Malt in mouth is good and bitterness on end, some choc and grainyness. Feels like a dark malt beer, but the mouthfeel feels light whilst the end is grainy/dry with some caramalised red fruit. Genuinely odd.
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
JDW, Holborn Mmmm. This is a very tasty and fresh malty beer with enough hops to provide interest, balance and a further depth of attraction, leading into a lingering finish. The combination of sweetness and bitterness playing around the fruit is quite delightful. A very enjoyable drop.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at the Olde Dolphin Innn summer beer festival, Derby. A good fruity bitter, decent grumbling malt base and a short bitter finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: SEP 29, 2007 Sep 07 Gravity cask @ Royal Oak Beer festival. NIce fresh hops contrast well with chocolate maltiness. 3.4
Aug 05 @ Guide Dog, Soton (03/08/05). Mid-brown with frothy off-white head. Fairly malty with an odd tangy fruity hop taste I couldnt quite place. Strange but not in a bad way. 3.1
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Chelmsford Winter Beerex 2005.
Brown with white head. Gravity. A reasonable bitter but not a lot to it. Malt with a bitter finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Conditioned at The Sailors Return, East Chaldon, Dorset. Golden beer with bubbly head. A fruity sweet golden beer with smooth underlying fresh malt flavour and a light zippy tangy hop. Nicely balanced and refreshing.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Golden colour. Fruity/nutty aroma. Sweetish palate. Some hops. Full bodied. Long fruity finish. OK, but not really to my taste - others might well think more highly of it. Handpump, Crosse Keys, London EC4, February 2003
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