3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at home, thanks to Jim Ezzex IP, 26/02/13. Bottle conditioned - just under a month after BBD for future re-rate reference.
Hazed golden amber with a smallish frothy white head that clears to a film, looks a little over carbonated wirh small bubbles clinging to the glass.
Nose is pale malt, lemon peel, orange, yeasty notes, light spice, cooking apples.
Taste comprises grass, citrus, yeast, pale malt, stewed apples, wheat, grain.
Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, some citric bitterness in the finish.
Not good, not bad ... file under ’W’ !
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
BC round the in-laws, 14/07/12. Cloudy pale gold with a spotted skim of suds. English apple; juvenile Orval-like horse, gooseberry aroma. Attractive, yeasty, hop-bitter and drying beer with an underlying sprinkle of biscuit. Some grassiness; a hint of nuts. Rustic and quite harsh. Decent.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask by gravity at Larbert Beer Festival (31 Mar 12) - mild wheat malt aroma, clear pale golden ale with frothy white head, malty, mild citrus flavour, dry finish
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, gravity at a pre-Candleford Beer Festival tasting 09.06.11 many thanks to John, Roger & all of the organisers for inviting me over Simple straightforward golden beer, looks great with a nice white bubbly head. Aroma is faint but light fruity and malty, there is a nice creamy vanilla flavour running through this. Pleasant simple beer. A6 A5 T7 P3 Ov13 3.4
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW. Clear yellow pour with almost no head. Faint aroma, bits of straw. Decent flavor, reasonably sweet, plenty of straw and cereal, some lagerishness in there, mildy bitter. Light bodied with soft carbonation. Pretty well balanced by the time the finish comes around. Some nice crackery malts and straw hops. Some faint soap, but no biggie. Decent.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
24th March 2008
Cloudy golden ale. Fruity orange and lemon. Dry finish with light hop bitterness. Refreshing.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cloudy pale yellow with a small shite head. Aroma had brett, malt and hints of hops. Dry flavor with plenty of brett, malt and fruity hops. Finished dry and bitter.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a thin white head. The aroma has notes of malt, wheat, straw, and spices. The flavor is sweet with notes of wheat, malt, straw, and hops, leading to a bitter finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours a cloudy yellow with a dense white head. Sweet, fruity nose - with a distinctive touch of Brett! Medium body, sweet fruit and dry and astringent Brett accents. Ends dry. Almost a mini-Orval! A lovely infection. 010910
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@GBBF2010. Yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, wood, nectar and some mild spices. Flavour is fruits, nectar, mild earth as well as mildly yesty. Nicely balanced otherwise, but the yeastyness ruins it a bit.
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