2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (GBBF2011, Wed)
Sweet honey aroma. In the mouth it has pungently hoppy retronasals. Taste is fairly bland, but the hops come through in the finish well. Adequate golden ale, but a bit watery.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Golden with a small white head. Aroma of honey and fruit with a grassy touch. Sweet fruity flavour with a honey malty note
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruity, apple notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, apples. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110803]
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours clear golden with a off white head. Straw and butter. Thin and flat. Diacetyl . . Nasty.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at GBBF 2011.
Clear golden colorued with a small white head.
Fruity aroma of candies, grass and hops.
Fruity flavour of grass, hops and candies.
Dry hoppy finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
From cask. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is herbal and slight ashtray hoppy. Bitter, mild fruity, citrusy and apples. Bitter, dry and herbal hoppy finish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@The Castle Inn, Cambridge. Golden colour, not too much head. Aroma is bready malts, mild floral and grassy notes. Flavour is floral, grassy, earthy and bready. A bit dull.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask conditioned, gravity dispensed, at The Lord Nelson Inn, Reedham, Norfolk. Clear gold with white head. Looking good was about it for this beer, it soon became disappointing. Thin and beery, but in a cheapish way, hardly any depth or character.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask handpull at Market Porter, Borough. Some yeast on aroma. Bit dull in flavour in mouth. Just doesn’t taste of much except the house yeast.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask conditioned handpump Wig & Pen Northampton. A golden beer with an off-white head. There is a little lemony hop note in the slightly fusty nose. Farty and leafy in the mouth. Unexciting.
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