2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Clear copper colour. Fruity nose with some butter and boiled vegetables. Medium bodied with clean rounded mouthfeel. Slight salty spicy cardboard finish. Rather lifeless.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm, 15 Sep 2010) Reddish amber colour with frothy, beige head. Malty nose with caramel, dark fruit and some dusty hops. Malty, fruity taste with notes of caramel, dark fruit, red berries and slightly floral hops in the finish. Medium body, with some sweetness. A bit dusty, but nice enough.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
It’s only been 3 days and I’m already trying to avoid Fuller’s pubs. They’ve got the market cornered at least on the streets I walk down on the traditional old British pub looking places. So I’ve tried the majority already.
Anwyays, the Fox itself. It was a little sweet, sort of fruity (pears). There was a musty, earthy quality about it (and in a tasty way). it’s deep and dark ruby red in color.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours out in a clear reddish brown colour with a small off-white creamy head. Hay-like and soily hops in the aroma with solid undertones offudge, nuts, almonds and milky chocolate. Medium-bodied with balanced notes of nuts, milky chocolate, straw, soil, leaves and red berries. Medium-bitter finish of soil, fudge and hay. Tasty and solid quaffer.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask. Copper colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruits, some wood, grassy, mildly yeasty as well as some berries. Flavour is rather similar with a quite bready, but bitter finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask@Volo.
Fine malty nose, some pitfruit, light auburn, a small custard head. Taste is mild malt, touch of fruit. Light bodied, balanced, pleasantly bitter,very sessionable. Quite good.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
At Volo - Mild sweet grain, light red berry fruit, dry light hops, balanced.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at ’Volo Cask Days 2009’. Pours a somewhat clear golden-amber with a lasting creamy off-white head. Mild aroma of grassy hops and caramel malt. Slightly watery flavour of mild grassy hops along with caramel malt and a very light bitter finish. Average bodied. Just OK.
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