1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Hand pulled at the Wheatsheaf, West Bromwich. Hazy golden appearance, with hints of amber. Smells like sweets. Ooooh, not very nice first impression - unpleasantness, sweetness, mingled with a sour, off hardness. Like burnt plastic or mangled golf club. Dry, bitter aftertaste, but the main offence comes from the lengthy main flavours as previously described. Traditional crap UK attempt at a strong pale ale. Muddled, mushy and not good.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at Reading Beer Festival, 30 April 2009. Gold. No head but decent condition. Clean grassy hop aroma but rather restrained. Nice fresh clean fruity flavour. Tropical fruit. Soft but not flabby. Good drinking stuff.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask-conditioned at the Seven Stars, Bristol 11/04/10. Deep gold with a frothy, white head. Sweet, orange and caramel aroma with some citrus hops. Surprisingly easy drinking for the ABV, with marmalade flavours and a decent decent dry finish. Very good.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask handpump at The Bell, Banbury, Oxon, 22-03-10 Banbury Beer Festival Meeting. Pours warm gold with a thin white lacing for a head The aroma like of all these festival beers has become a little blunted, in this case its sweet but everything else is subtle and hard to detect (they’ve been on now for 3-4 days) but the condition and appearance is still very good as is the temperature. Nice pithy grapefruit in mouth, silky sweet, bitterness lingers, quite lovely stuff. A6 A5 F8 P4 Ov14 3.7
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at The Bell, Banbury. Gold with white head. I wasn’t overly sure about this one, hopped definitely, quite citrusy and there is an alcohol charge, which becomes sweetish. I liked it, but wanted to love it, and it didn’t deliver that. Still very good though.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Stillage at the Community Centre, Frodsham 02/05/2009
Fruit and hop aromas. Golden coloured and hoppy with a little citrus fruit flavour. Crisp bitter and slightly dry malt finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask gravity at Reading BF 09. Gold, no head. Hop and I thought butter on the aorma. Good hops through out, bit earthy, bit citrusy, some grapefruit, and a nice bite about the beer. It’s fullish and very drinkable.
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