2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
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Cask at Chelmsford Beer Festival. Nice amber colour. Sweet and malty with a tarty medicinal note. Nothing special.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
500 ml bottle. Almost clear amber body with a small white head. Vague, sweet malty aroma with some fruitiness. Flavor is caramel malt and a hint of bitterness, very average flavor. A bit watery body and not to balanced. OK session bitter but to flavorless for me.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, gravity dispense at Woodford Beer Festival at The Duke, Woodford, Northants, 25-05-07. Everyone in our group hated this apart from me, described as ’tasting like sick’, ’tastes a bit sour’. Poured amber it had a slightly fruity nose, the taste was also quite fruity and despite some sweetness it really did have a bite to it, I quite liked it but on the other hand I wouldn’t rush to seek it out again there are a lot better beers out there.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask, GBBF 2006. A hazy orange beer with no head. The aroma is sweet fruity, while the flavor has slight notes of diacethyl, combined with notes of metal, leading to a dry end.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask @ GBBF 2006. Amber. Slightly soured, rrotten fruit aroma. Dry and bitter, spoiled. Strange.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (GBBF 2006): Sweet, fruity notes of apricot. Nice, simple fruity bitter, but could do with a bit more depth.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
As it says, a traditional bitter. Got it at GBBF, but not really something I will be crazy about. It has some special features and nice for a while. Good colour and nice foam as the aftertaste.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(Cask at GBBF, London, 3 Aug) Colour is pale amber with small head. Nose is malty and nutty with some fruit, butter-scotch and an earthy hop aroma. Taste is malty, nutty with notes of peaches, toffee and a dry bitter finish with earthy hops. There is an underlying lactic note of butter-scotch here, maybe indictaing it’s passed its peak. Have to give it another try if I stumble across it. Still, definitely drinkable.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) at GBBF, August 2006. Day 1, beer #2. Franco Davanzo at Felstar makes some extremely interesting beers that often pay little heed to concepts of style. Too bad, then, that the only beer ordered for GBBF was a very traditional session bitter. Attractive bright pale amber colour. Soft, earthy hop aroma. Dry mouthfeel with a chalky edge and a reasonable amount of body for a low ABV beer. Moderately bitter finish. A perfectly enjoyable beer, but nothing out of the ordinary and had to jostle with scores of other beers in a similar style.
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