3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20Dark, amber-orange beer with a creamy white head. A light, mellow nose of malty tones of bitter-sweet caramel, but with a touch of citrusy hop in the finish. The taste is slightly dry and bitter, the citrusy hop element being more predominant, and the malty note in the background. The aftertaste is smooth and rounded. (Draught - The Rose & Crown, Snettisham, Norfolk).
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draught at Black Bull/Donington, A lovely pint, not too heavy, good taste of hops, pleasant aftertaste, goes well with most meals.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draught at "Swan" - Bayswater/London . Amber/orange color, clear and limpid aspect with a poor head resistance. Malty and cortex aroma. Smooth taste with a little resin mouth and a bitter dried final.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@thedilke, walsall. Amber beer with medium fright head. Aroma of sweet toffee. Taste of toffee and malts. A very average beer.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours golden with white head. Aroma is some hops, with a sweet malty aroma. Flavor is malt, with grassy hop notes and a slight bitterness.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On cask at The Paper Mill, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma of light bready malts, floral hops and English hops - very subtle stuff. Flavour brings out floral notes, English hops, and light bready malts. Very enjoyable and definitely a different beast to the regular bottled version.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Porterhouse Cork. Pours a clear amber gold with a thin white head. Aroma is quite malty, with caramel and straw to the front, but with more unusual tobacco and chocolate notes too. Medium-strong sweetness and only a light bitterness on tasting. Again quite malty, with more caramel and straw coming through. Lingering sweetness with a light body and a nice smooth finish. Pretty decent bitter, but nothing that remarkable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Angleterre, Helsinki. Colour is hazy orange with small foamy white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, grape, bitterness, hops and malts.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nov 2012 - on draught again in London. A bit generic - biscuit malt, drying in the mouth and unexciting.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
En stabil engelsk bitter. Smak och doft av humle, malt, karamell, citrustoner, fruktig och lagom söt. Välbalanserad med en lagom beska.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask. Dark orange, hazy. Malty with yeasty notes. english hops, some green grass. Pretty nice, malty, cask ale.
-- bb/h(n9)
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