2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned handpump Great Eastern Brighton. A brown beer with a lasting white head and lacing. An ordinary earthy english bitter with leafy hops. Fruity notes. Overwarmth might stifle some flavours but it does seem pretty ordinary.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Tight lasting head with a gentle aroma of freshly mown hay. Flavour represents a fine balance between malt and hops and the finish is reasonably long and malty, very refreshing on a warm summer’s day. You will need to choose your pub carefully for such a delicate ale and not therefore one to rate as your 11th half at the Invercockaleekie beer festival... but under the right conditions, one of the best.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
First tasted this in Coanes, Johnstone in May 1986. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear copper red in colour with a thick creamy white head. Slight redcurrant fruit in the short sweet aroma. Thin but refreshing mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts deliver a robust fiery digestive biscuit base with toffee and barley sugar flavours. Slight prickle of hop resins detected in the brief aftertaste. Finish is well and truly malty with fruit undertones of dry currants. Slight tang of hard water salts creeps in as well. A decent quaffing ale and well recommended.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Prince Regent, Herne Hill, London SE24 on 1st June 2011. Clear copper with thick creamy white head of foam. Berry fruit aroma, then sweet caramel malt and some citric hop in background. Pleasant textured mouthfeel, and quite a sweet aftertaste. Very well kept by pub, beer by no means a favourite but I ended up enjoying it rather more than envisaged.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Black Door, Helsinki)
6 Slightly farty aroma, hint of veg and hay.
3 Mid orange,small spongy head
7 Fruity estery retronasals. Lovely full bitter taste, simply malty graininess, and very dry noble bitterness.
3 very simple refreshing bitter, not quite watery. Pleasant bitter finish.
13 very easy to drink session bitter.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at GBBF 2009 ... amber ... sweet fruit ... light toffee nose ... bright fruity toffee ... orange and lemon
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask-conditioned at the Lord Nelson, Wheathampstead, Herts. A pleasant enough session bitter. Golden coloured with a moderate white head. Fruity aroma with some floral hops. Slightly sweet flavour with a brief, dry finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Copper beer with a lasting white little head. Malt dominated aroma with caramel and toffee. Dry and malty flavour with a hoppy finish.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Clear apricot coloured ale topped by a gentle off-white ring. Interesting floral nose reveals itself through its fruitiness (apricot, peach and pear) first and then through its less pleasant tartish breadiness. Flavour keeps on, but no bitterness cuts those sweet “treats”. Light bodied and dull after a few sips.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@GBBF2007. Deep golden colour, mediumsized head. Aroma is caramel, some earthy hops and perfume. Flavour is hops, wood and grass with some slight perfumeish hints. Quite watery palate.
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