3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
<o> Cask Fresh @ Jdw's Watch House, Lewisham. I was expecting a Golden Ale with a name like that, but it turns up a murkey brown colour and with an assertive dark malt and earthy hop flavour. This does show off English hops to best effect, quite an explosion of tingly, down right dirty hop bitterness grinding on and on. The juicy fruits up front are soon over whelmed by the hops. Damn good.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark beer with ruby colouration. Nose is Bakewell tart, caramel. Taste is caramel, coffee, roasted nutty flavours giving way to floral English hops and bitter finish. Good Winter Ale.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Market Porter, London)
6 Sweet toffee caramel on the first sniff, touch of red berries, and almost a cakey aroma later.
4 Mid-red-orange, persistent ring head.
7 Retronasals quite toffee-ey, some light fruit and fleshy fruit nectar, hints at pungent hops. Taste well balance sweet rich malts, and fruity too.
4 Quite full in the mouth, soft carbonation. Sweet treacly cakey finish, and lovely dry leafy hops take over for the long finish.
13 Super solid sweetish bitter. Great non-strong winter warmer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
cask at cloister ... stilage ... brown ...cherry toffee nose ....sweet woody toffee malts ... soft easy
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at a Wetherspoons in Manchester. A nut-brown beer with a thin tan head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and nuts. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and nuts as well as light notes of metal. Nice.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: JAN 11, 2012 Cask conditioned handpump Wootton WMC. A dark chestnut coloured beer with an off white head. The aroma has hints of tiredness with some fruit skin notes. There is better signs to the flavour though which is malty and there are coffee notes. Fruit then comes through and there’s a fair amount of bitterness. A nice taste, shame about the nose. Score 3.0
Subsequent rating scored 3.3. Average becomes 3.1
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading.] Chestnut with a loose cream head; caramel malt aroma; malty flavour with some roast nuts and well balanced bitterness, and a long hoppy finish.
3.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Handpulled cask at JDW Hatch End Harrow. Dark copper with off white head. Good pure tasting toffee malt with a late gentle hop finish. More of a winter ale to me rather than a premium bitter. Very nice.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned @ Humble Plumb, Soton. Toffeish malts well balanced with earthy leafy hops. Some nutty toasty hints linger. Reasonably bitter finish prevents this from being to sweet. Whilst this wasnt bad I’m not always especially keen on the maltiers ’bitters’ this one was lifted above the ordinary by the hop element.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at The Market Porter London Bridge 5 Feb 08. Dark amber colored. A creamy head. Pleasant aroma with hints of fruit. A bit weak in flavor. Dry finish. Quite thin. No ice observed.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask handpull at Market Porter, London. Ruby with lasitng beige head. I’m guessing that it is supposed to be an old ale but can see it’s down as an ESB. A malty ashy aroma, but then too much caramel in the mouth and no sourness. But a tingly dry hop. As a darkish ale, yep, not bad, bit too sweet up front, but the hop stings the teeth on the finish. Interesting. A malt toffee hoppy beer.
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