3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 3 December 2009. Gold colour. Some assertive citric hops - lemon but some orange peel too. Good drinking. Getting late and my notes are beginning to deteriorate.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, The Salmon, Leicester. Golden with an off white head. Aromas are toasted malts with apricot and lemon. Honey with grassy hops. Flavours are cereal and toast malts with dry lemon hops and some herbal, floral notes. Soft hops, has quite a lager character. Not bad.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from the brewery. Pours cloudydark golden with a big frothy white head. Aroma is malty and light hoppy. Taste is moderate sweet with some good light bitter hops, which lingers till the end.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at GBBF 2010. A golden beer with no head. The aroma has notes of citrusy and flowery hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and hay, leading to a dry, bitter, and lemony finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Golden. Aroma of fuggley musty hop. Light bitterness and some toasty crackerlike malt.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Brewpub. Honey blonde-gold with tight head. Earthy, floral aroma with some mushroom. Slightly sticky palate. Tastes hoppier than it smells with lots of lingering high alpha bitter esters. Soft palate. Very good hoppy brew.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium orange yellow color with a small to average, frothy to fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruity, malt sweet notes, light to moderate hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, plastic notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100805]
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 05/08/2010
Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured with some alcohol present. A hint of dryness in a very bitter malt finish.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask@GBBF2010. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is grass, wood, nectar, sap and some mild spices. Flavour is strong citrus fruits, some peach and mild nectary and earthy notes.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a fully gone head. Aroma is mild fruity and malty. Citrusy and sweet. Light malty. Goes citrusy hops bitter into the finish. Ends dry.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: APR 4, 2010 BC, Driftwood Spars Hotel, Trevaunance Cove, Cornwall (room 2). Filmy gold with a fine white sheet of head; swamped with particulate towards the bottom of the bottle. Aroma: well-hopped with peach, mango and pineapple glinting through CO2 and muddier vegetal undercurrents (cheese and onion crisps?).. Flavour tropical (pineapple) hop-dominated with a husky malt and dry roasted peanut backdrop; fragrant and piney/tropical hops dulled by yeast and fizz. Hint of shampoo finish. Solid, but as with so many bottled English beers I get the impression this is a misrepresentative, skewed version of a tastier cask product. That said, they’ve not been bottling for long and it’s still an enjoyable beer..
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