3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
10th July 2012
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Clear amber beer, decent suddy offf white head. Nice semi crisp palate, fresh. Tangy dried fruits with a little red berry fruits as well. Nice malt backbone. Finishes smooth and dry with medium bitterness. Nice beer and great to see Farmers Ales doing good stuff.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle the in-laws picked up for me at the brewery. Ribena red; sloppy, with a beige swirl of head. Seriously inviting aroma; ripe blackcurrant, pollen and coffee. Juicy, well balanced flavour with tangy hedgerow and floral hops, just-crushed milk chocolate Hobnob notes, dry roasted, liquorice. Something of the flavour profile of a black IPA. Not a hint of dead admiral, or even brandy. Quite a beer.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned Handpump Wig & Pen Northampton. A mid brown coloured beer with a whitish head. really good bready malts with strong fruity hops in this. verging on a US amber in many ways. The cascade is excellent here. A lovely body for a sub 4%er but the brandy probably helped with that although I couldn’t taste it. Superb flavours and excellent balance.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, gravity dispensed, at the Cambridge Beer Festival. Deep reddish mahogany in colour with a trace of white head; fruity aroma; rich and full fruity flavour; then a dry finish. Rather like a porter, despite trhe low ABV.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml bottle: Still and syrupy looking without much of a head to it at all. The nose is lightly fruity but nothing to write home about. In the mouth it sweet caramel then slightly eggy yeast and a woody hint of spice and a dry finish. The aftertaste contains maybe a hint of that brandy warmth in the finish? It’s actually alright. A bit watery and still for me though.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Southampton Arms, Gospel Oak. No head, mahogny-coloured. Chocolate, apples, caramel and a dry finish.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ GBBF 2009. Pours a clear dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. FRuity malty and slightly hoppy bitter flavor. Has a fruity malty bitter finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear dark red amber color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, light nutty, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, orange. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090805]
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma has fruit, malt, caramel tea and a hint of currants. Fruity and toffee malty flavour, with medium bitterness.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at GBBF 2009 ... copper ... washing up liquid nose ... soft dulll frui malts ...
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