2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask@St Albans Beer Festival. Again with the sour/sulfuric green apple with this brewer. Grainy malt, some hoppy fruit (citrus) characters. I just didn’t like the sulfuric character.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at the Black Horse, Darwen 21/05/2005
Clear golden coloured hoppy and slightly creamy on the palate. Some dryness and bitterness in a malt finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - St Albans BF. An orangey copper coloured bitter with a lovely orange marmalade and lychee hop aroma. The taste has good hoppiness also but is over dry and a tad astringent.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
St Albans. Gravity. Pleasant. Fruity and hoppy. Amarillo type hops. Doesn’t take you far, but it’s a pleasant conversation along the way.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (gravity dispense), St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Dark copper colour. Nice hoppy nose, soft in mouth. Good green hoppy finish with a cascadey/liberty hop aroma.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (gravity dispense), St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Amber colour. I was very surprised to see the hops used in this beer as it had a very marked clammy armpit/sweaty sock aroma that I often associate with the use of lots of Fuggles. Otherwise, it was a quite clean and dry beer that didn’t make too much of an impression on me. Not very summery in my book.
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