3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@Ice Wharf, Camden, London. Deep amber colour, small slightly off-white head. Aroma is floral, wooden and mildly toffeeish. Flavour is fruity, wooden, a bit nutty with some berries and mild herbal notes. Quite bitter and dry finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Reddy amber with white head. Smooth malty beer, some caramel, toffee, some earthiness but mostly smooth and a touch fruity. Ok.
2.3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 9/20
Good head as well as being crisp with a smooth texture, however weak bodied and bland.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Tilly Shilling (JDW), Farnborough. Amber with a loose cream head; light fruity aroma; tangy with slightly sour apple and pear flavours; and a crisp, drp, cidery, finish. Not at all bad.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Square Peg, Birmingham, defined as Brown Ale
Beautiful dark mahogany color with small but persistent creamy head. Light caramel aroma. Quite good caramel and chocolate flavor, with just a bit more roasted malts in the final.
Pleasant.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, handpump at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks, 26-07-10 Pours reddy amber with off-white creamy head. This is a fairly standard bitter, served a touch warm, its safe on the maltiness and bitterness front, some caramel shows, its fine. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov12 3.1
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
500ml bottle. Eye-wateringly carbonated after the 2 US beers I just saw off, but most definitely not without its charms. Pours a mellow, honeyed brass with an uneven, fine, well-retained whip of head. Juicy aroma dragging in botanicals, fresh grassy hop (despite being date-expired), dried apricots- in short, a right old sniffer. Mouth gritty citrus, tang of both orange and apple peel, flick of ash, creamy digestive linger. Top BC English of a kind I’ve not had for weeks.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 3 December 2009. Clear bronze colour. Decent condition. Decent traditional style best bitter. Reasonably dry. Moderate earthy hops. Smattering of sweet malt.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask gravity at Pig’s Ear BF 09. Amber colour, very thin off white head. A yeasty aroma. Pretty decent bitter in mouth, decent biscuit, very good bitter..
2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A Mes rate:
Cask at Fringe. Golden brown with a slight white head. Aroma is not too great. Diacetyl and slight sweaty feet. Just about tolerable. Flavour is much better with some nice tart and dry hoppage a little grapefruit and a dusty dry finish.
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