2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned handpump Malt Shovel Northampton. A pale blonde beer with a white head and lacing. A dry Yorkshire bitter. Decent light hop flavours. Some orange notes but a bit of rubber. Quite normal.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at Harbury Beer Fest ’11. Clear gold with white head. Crisp, sharp malts wit a rich tea biscuit type character. Reasonable hop notes to balance up quite nicely. A decent sessionable bitter.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask gravity at K&ES Railway BF 2011. Pale clear gold thin white head. Cracking condition bit of hard candy but extremely pleasant. Easy drinking but not a best bitter.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
cask at guildford arms ... very pale golden yellow ... thin white head ... soft lemon hop nose ... juicy fruits .... light lemon hop nose ... juicy fruits ...
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
<i>Cask conditioned at The Castle, Furnival St., London</i>
Hazy blond color. Nice fudge/toffee aroma. Some malt flavor, with residual sweetness, low bitterness, less interesting than the aroma.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Half pint, hand pulled cask at The Dagda Bar in Edinburgh. Golden body, slightly hazy. Missing head, fragile lacing. Floral hoppy aroma. Taste of fruity hops and honey sweetness, with a decent bitterness lingering on the swallow [26.10.2008].
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Golden with frothy, white head. Biscuit and mild citrus aroma. Citrus, sweet malt, and hop bitter finish.
3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Victoria Hotel, Beeston, Nottingham. Gold with a white head. Cardboard aroma, possibly malty. Despite its claim to be ’strong on aroma’, I judged this the weakest feature. The taste was inconsistent: slight sweetness to begin, not much to notice in media res, followed by a pleasant hoppiness in extremis.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Volunteers Arms, GBBF 2007. A golden beer with a huge cream colored head. The aroma is sweet mlaty with light notes of citrus. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of citrusy hops and straw, leding to a good bitter finish.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draught quarter-pint at NERAX on 5/3/07
Deep bronze-gold body shows off the wonderful color of maris otter without any caramel/crystal malts. The beer is bright with a medium-sized white head atop, providing moderate lacing.
Some papery, grainy malts show a very strong attenuation and only a bit of the honey character I associate with maris otter is present on the finish. Not very hoppy, with some grassiness and light citric notes, mostly bitterness, it seems. Dry, yellow fruits emerge lightly, with some buttercreaminess coming on as well, with warming. Medium to low strength of aroma. Nothing particularly wrong with it, but not very characterful either.
Sweet, soft maris otter texture gives light honey notes that are interrupted by some scratchy, over-attenuated malt tannins in the middle. Ends with some light residual sugars, an odd butteriness that I cant decide if it is diacetyl or just malt and ester interplay. Loose body, on the lighter side, with stale/nutty/vegetal hop character and minimal bitterness. Strange, I won’t say flawed, but just dosent strike me as a very carefully brewed beer.
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