3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
The beer produces a large head, but overall the product has dull qualities. A smooth but plain bitterish beer.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
First tasted this in Gabriels, Paisley in July 1999. Cask, handpump dispense. Rich ovaltine notes in the short aroma. Thin, creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts gives a fiery digestive malt base with tart redcurrant fruit notes. Strong hop resins flood in to the aftertaste to give a dry bitter herbal note. Malty with orange peel present in the warming finish. An enjoyable ESB and well recommended.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A Mes rate. Cask handpull at the New Crown.
Golden brown faint white collar. Strange raspberry and medicinal notes. Plain and a little lifeless. Probably needs a little more time seeing as it’s just come on. Pleasant sweetish bready malt with an earthy hint in the finish. Standard but drinkable.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ J.D Wetherspoon - Air side, London - Standsted Airport.
Clear medium amber orange color with a small to average, fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, toffee notes, moderate hoppy, dusty. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090420]
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask handpull at Victoria Rail station Spoons. Copper colour with lasting beige head. It’a a strongish bitter with a bit of orangey fruit, some good drying hop on finish, bit of bite and some house yeast character. Fine.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask, stillage, at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Poured copper coloured with no head; balsamic aroma; syrupy texture, grainy and sweet with a trace of honey. Poor.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Last minute half, The Bell Hotel (JDW), Norwich. Deep orange amber capped with nitro slickness. Signature dried raisiny and dusty hop aroma, added glug of dried heady fruit, apricot maybe. Vanilla bready afters. No surprises.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Amber with white head. Full and bitter with good dusty hops and an earthy character, slightly perfumed and swwetish malt. Pretty reasonable.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask-conditioned at the Knights Templar (JDW), Bristol 18/04/09. Deep amber with a moderate, off-white head. Aroma of fruity malt with some grassy hops. Flavour started with some sweet malts before a decent bitter finish. Ok, if not particularly memorable.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at standing order (JDW) in ’Spoons Real Ale Festival, April ’09 ... copper light tan head ... light hop nose ... fruity juicy malts ... with light fruity hop ... quite mellow.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Globe, Lecester, RB crawl 2005. Has a whiff of sweet perfume to it, a sharpness too that seemed out of place, an OK bitter.
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