3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned @ Cuckoo Inn, Hamptworth. Toasty sweet toffeish malt. Light but not watery body drying out with mild earthy hop finish. Well balanced but could easily slip down without you noticing it.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Bree Louise. Very clear amber colour with small white bubbly head Aroma is very grainy and a bit stinky. Quite thin. Taste is grainy, malty. Finish is a more sweet and less skunky.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask gravity @ Battersea BF 2012. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grainy caramel aroma. Fruity malty grainy rye and caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Amber color with a small white head. Smells of caramel, some lemon zest, some shortbread. The taste is initially a bit sweet and acidic, a bit of butterscotch. The finish is dry, mildly bitter. Light/medium body. Subtle carbonation. Well constructed but ultimately forgettable bitter!
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at the Magpie in Brentford, light copper with a fast settling white head, a little caramel and peach on the nose, crisp and peppery on the palate with sweetness and a little fruit in the mid-body then turning dryish and with a bitter tang.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Casked. Pale copper coloured, bubbly head, which vanishes quite quickly. Vegetables, caramel malts as well as slight hoppyness in aroma. Grassy and hoppy flavour with some sweet caramellish malts in it. Quite wellbalanced. Rather thin.
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