Gales Robins Revenge

Formerly brewed at Gales
Style: Bitter
Horndean, England

Serve in English pint

Cask: Ruby amber with a beige head. Medium nutty aroma. Mild, boring bitter.

Cask conditioned @ Humble Plumb, Soton. Caramel and fruit. Thin and sweet with some tinny bitterness in the finish.

Pint pulled from The Railway in Putney (London), a light brown with a creamy head. Aroma is a flowery malt. Apricots and berries in the flavour and oh so smooth in the mouth. Yum!

Cask Conditioned, at the Black Jug, Horsham, West Sussex. </br> Rustic brown colour with full beige head. Roasty malt base with dried fruit notes. Very quaffable is a polite way to describe it.

Cask handpull at County Hotel JDW Ashford. Dark mahogany colour with thin beige head. Very malty with raisins and sultanas, some choc. Not a huge aroma., Warming and sweetish malts in mouth with some following dry hop on the finish. Some brown sugar in mouth to give it that sweetness. Quite a good winter beer with plenty of rich fruit

UPDATED: MAR 25, 2006 NOt really exciting, although I thought it was from the same brewery, Robinsons. Perhaps this is the last beer I have from GAles, since it may be disappearing. A little bitter. BUt just good.

I love finding old notes. Had this at the Green Man last December and found it to be another typical ale of its kind, meaning that the palate was getting a bit jaded by this point. Nevertheless it is a good coppery colour and reasonable ead from the cask. Fruity nose and equally fruity flavour on the palate and good hop presence.

UPDATED: DEC 1, 2005 Jan, 2005 Britannia, Chatham. A malty red ale with some damp autumn leaves and a roasty bitterness at the back. Vague chocolate notes. Flavoursome Celtic Ale, but doesn’t quite pull it off in the finish. [2.9]
Dec, 2005JDW, Leytonstone. Earthy and juicy with red berries and fat glaced cherries in a hop soaked atmosphere. [3.5]