Durham Magus

Brewed by Durham
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Durham, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Clear golden colour, white head. Quit light aroma, malts, light caramel, some hops. Sweet malty flavour, bread, straw. Light body. Finish malts, light hops.
(from 50cL bottle @ a friend’s place)

500 ml bottle.
Pours a golden colour with a white head. Aroma of caramel, dried apricot and lemon zest. Flavour of sweet malts, lemon zest, bread, grapefruit and bitterness. Light bodied, slick mouthfeel and high carbonation. Drinkability is good. Overall a decent session beer.

500ml bottle. Clear pale yellow-straw colour, bubbly white head and aroma of malt & citrus. Taste is caramel malt with tangy citrus and biscuity notes, and a very dry bitterness through to the finish. Light bodied, medium carbonation. Quite drinkable.

A slightly cloudy, light yellow beer with a medium and white head. Aroma is fresh and aromatic, nice, fruits, citrusfruits, some fructose and grass. Taste is quite dry, malts, fruits, herbs and lavender, medium bitterness. Only light bodied, but that is not bothering, medium carbonation. Unique and aromatic beer with enough of bitterness.

500ml bottle. Poured with immense white head, pale yellow beer. Mouthfeel thin, medium bitterness. Taste: lemon. Overall: top quality beer, avoids the usual pitfalls of many similar beers such as over-hopping with ’c’ hops.

160213. Bottle at home. Pours slight hazy golden with a frothy head. Aroma citrus, grass. Nice fresh citrusy taste. Medium low palate as expected. Very nice. Not Bad,

Bottle@home, 550ml. Head: white, shrinking. Colour: pale yellow. Aroma: hops, flowery. Taste: hops, bitter. Palate: dry, medium bitter finish, low CO2. Overall: very good.

50 cl bottle @ home, BBE 07/2013
Aroma is quite fruity with hops, gooseberry bush and birch leaves. Also a slight English feeling with toffee. Flavour has hops, some gooseberry bush and grapefruit. Finishes dry and leathery with hay. Good, and made me even forgot that ABV is only 3,8%.

(Bottle, 0.5 l, at Pikkulintu, 20120929) The beer poured golden and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had grain, sweetness and grass. Palate was light bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were grain, fruitiness, grass, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was grassy, malty and bitter. A tasty and balanced beer with very low ABV.

500 ml bottle. Gyle 2330. BB July 2013. Hilpeä Hauki, Helsinki, Finland.
Cloudy deep golden colour with small off-white head. Perfumy and floral hops and green apple (positive) in aroma. Nice light Bitter. Floral hops. Touch of bitterness. A bit easy to surprisingly not that thin.