Flowerpots Elder Ale

Brewed by Flowerpots
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Alresford, England

Cask @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium yellow color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, flowers, citrus, lemon. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090806]

Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 06/08/2009 Floral aroma. Clear golden coloured and floral with a crisp and slightly bitter lasting malt finish.

Cask at GBBF 2009. Pale gold, lasting off white head. Looks lovely. Really quite strong elderflower, biting, over a slightly yeasty golden ale. Pretty good biting elderflower throughout. As good as the Cheriton Pots Village Elder, its predecessor? Not quite.

Strange name but it was a little btter, not too floral and nice to drink a while.

Cask@GBBF 2009 as "Elder Ale". Yellow color, small white head. Honeyish aroma. Quite watery. Week lime peels and honey in the flavor. Flavor basicly good but beer is too watery.

A Mes rate: Gravicask @ Reading Beer Festival. Almost pils like appearance. Hoppy nose with elderflower? Or is that just the name give me subliminal rate fodder? Flavour is actually quite good. Drinkable and surprisingly flavoursome with some nice sweet biscuity malts and a good balancing bitter hop finish. A fair bit of character considering it’s straight down the line.

Gravity cask @ Flowerpots, Cheriton. Pale quaffable beer. Familiar light elderflower aromas and fruity hops. Malt has the sweet aspect which to me is becoming a house character for the new Flowerpot beers which works well here with a gentle bitter finish helping to balance this out. On first impression a succesful rendition of Village Elder (I cant help comparing to the old Cheriton beers) after more considered supping perhaps eclipsing the template.