3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (Angleterre, Helsinki)
Deep orange, healthy head. Massive malty aroma, and really like cold black tea - quite bizarre. Taste is a mixture - apple, some tannin, light malts, but the tea is overpoweringly dominant. I must confess to loving cold tea. Decent bitter finish - full of real whole hops - and grainy malts, corn too - very nice.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@White Horse Parsons Green, London (as Freeminer Fairtrade Bitter). Hazy goldeny orange colour with small off-white creamy head. Aroma is fruits, wood, herbs, earth and some mild notes of yeast. Flavour is fruity, wooden, hoppe and also has some slight yeasty notes.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask Conditioned Gravity dispense Brackley Round Table BF. A copper coloured beer with some diacetyl in the nose amongst the hints of orange hoppiness. The taste is predominantly malty with toffee notes. Below average with a surprising lack of hop notes for Freeminer.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
(Cask at Pullman, Helsinki, on 2009-03-24) Pale golden and almost clear. Small, white and long lasting head. Weak grassy aroma. Dry, flat and medium bodied palate. Bitterness, little bit of malts and tiny amount of sweetness in taste. Flat aftertaste.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask from Wetherspoons in Galashiels, the only other cask beer apart from Deuchars they had available even though they had an Inernational Beer Festival running at the time. Anyway,it was a good mid brown colour, had a thin white head. Both the nose and palate were dominated by malt, a pleasant afternoon beer.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask-conditioned at a JDW in Newport, Wales. Deep amber with a decent off-white head. Malty aroma of fruit and caramel. Flavour was also sweet, with some chewy malt, grassy hops and a decent bitter finish. Good.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Gravity cask at the Battersea Beer Festival, 7th Feb 2008. Clear amber appearance with a caramely, biscuity malt aroma. Flavour is similar and it’s got a good weight to it. Great if you are looking for a sweet malty pint.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A Mes rate: Gravicask at Battersea Beer Festival.
Mid golden brown with no head. Bland aroma of biscuity malt. Even more bland flavour with a bit of tea. Inoffensive but nothing to get excited about here.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask, The Criterion, Leicester. Amber gold with a small head. Aromas are sweet ripe pear with brown sugar. Flavours are floral and sweet with some caramel. Hints of citrus, too. Seems a bit "damp".
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Handpump at the Friar Penketh, Warrington (JDW) 03/06/2002
Golden coloured slightly pale and malty. Bitter finish.
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