Glentworth Lightyear

Brewed by Glentworth
Style: Bitter
Doncaster, England

Serve in English pint

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[Cask at GBBF] Pale yellow. Aroma of citrus and vanilla. Dryish with light rounded mouthfeel. Refreshing with it’s evident wheat character and citric hops. Medium bitterness.

Cask @ 2nd Saltburn Beer Festival. A clear yellow colored beer, with a small white head. The aroma of sweet fruits with some bitter hops. The taste has sweet fruits with citrus. It´s dry with some bitter. The aftertaste is dry bitter with a little sweet.

A light beer with a floral, citrus aroma. Floral body with a noticable citrus bitterness down the glass. Lightly carbonated and fairly thin bodied. Bitter finish.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, light keller, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, vomit notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100805]

Not so bitter either, but very refreshing and pelasant to drink. Found a little big bubbles at the head and nice features. At GBBF 2010.

5th August 2010. GBBF.
Pale gold beer with a little white head. Light dry palate. Floral - distinct lemon citrus. Really nice lemony flavour. Finishes over dry but good taste.

From cask. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is lemonish citric and grassy. Dry and citric hops flavoured. Bone dry and bitter into the finish.

Cask at GBBF 2009 ... golden yellow ... big bright sherbert lemon hop ... light bright zezty fizzy sherbert lemon.

Pale yellow with a lasting white head. Fruity aroma with citrus. Dry and fruity, somewhat yeasty flavour

Cask@GBBF2008. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity hops, yeast and some wood. Flavour is the same along with really strong wooden bitterness kicking in in the finish.

A Mes rate: gravicask at GBBF.
Bright pale gold with a thin white film. A very pleasant citric and tropical fruit driven bitter with a good bready malt background. Slightly chalky bitter finish. Much better on the last day than it was towards the start of the festival.