3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
cask at the flowepots ... golden amber ... thin white head ... zezty lemon peel ... sweet hop front ... big peel lots of lemon ... soft easy ... light bitter linger ...
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned at The Bell, Banbury. Gold with white head. Light simple beer, quite thin on the palate, some hops and reasonable bitterness. Doesn’t really hit the top notes, but reasonable enough.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Volunteer Arms, GBBF 2008. Pours a clear golden color with a longlasting white head. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy aroma. Sweetish fruity hoppy bitter citrus flavor. Has a slightly sweetish fruity hoppy citrus finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (Guide Dog,Southampton) - Golden in colour with a small head. Hoppy aroma with grapefruit and a twist of lemon. A well balanced malt and hop combination. Lovely hoppy taste with tangy grapefruit. Very nice and much better than it used to be.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Clear medium yellow color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, flowers, perfume, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (020508)
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: MAR 22, 2010 Cask, gravity at the Flowerpots brewpub, Cheriton, Hampshire 6th June 2008 Pours warm gold in fact it looks stunning, great clarity and with the tiniest white head. Some honey starts to push though early on and then once the bitterness takes over leaking citrussyness across the roof and edges of the mouth the honey starts to return with sweet malts but also some florally flavours. A good beer but not as good as I was expecting. A6 A4 F7 P3 Ov13 3.3 Had this again on Cask handpump at The Bell, Banbury, Oxon, 22-03-10 Banbury Beer Festival Meeting. Pours warm gold, this has a streaky bitterness running through this. Excellent clarity, nice furry bitterness, citrus grabbing you again, sweet & fruity but pleasant stuff once again the condition and appearance is still very good as is the temperature, and these have been on now for 3-4 days now! A6 A5 F7 P4 Ov13 3.5
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Gravity cask @ Wheatsheaf, Shedfield. Golden colour. Citrussy zest and peppery hop nose - quite inviting. Sweet malt character similar to the bitter I had on the same night but more pronounced. Tingly peppery hop flavours but the bitterness is too restrained. Finishes a bit sweet for me. On subsequent tastings at the Flowerpot pub and elsewhere this hasnt really improved for me.
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