Farnham Mike Hawthorn

Brewed by Farnham
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Farnham, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Clear medium amber orange color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, moderate hoppy, lemon, buttery notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration, and a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. (030508)

Cask at the Ball and Wicket, Farnham. Hazy amber with a tight cream head; apricot aroma; rich and thick in the mouth with soft malts and some pineapple fruit; then a dry biscuity finish. Satisfying.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at Reading Beer Festival.
Bright golden brown with a thin white film. Aroma of ginger biscuits, pig farms and tea. Not really a winning combination. Flavour is more of the same with bigger biscuits. Slight bitterness on the finish then some sweet malt. So so at best.

Cask conditioned at The Live & Let Live, Cambridge. Gold to amber beer with white head. Dry, hoppy flowery beer with a bitter dry flavour throughout. Perfumed malt in a light body but with enough bite in the alcohol to make it credible. A decent beer.