3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Handpump at the Black Horse, Darwen 29/05/2004
Golden coloured fruity and hoppy with a little sourness. A dry malt finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask conditioned at The Case is Altered, Five Ways, Warks. Yellow gold with white head. Thinnish, malty light bitter, a little tinny and astringent. Sharp dry malt but with little hop character, some toffee, butterscotch. Acceptable.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
cask @ Lygon Arms, Chipping Campden, England. Pale yellow, decent lacing, smaller white head, dry floral hops with sweet malt finish
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small, virtually none appearance, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, caramel, toffee, moderate buttery. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (030508)
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
A Mes rate: Gravicask at Reading Beer Festival.
Clean gold with a thin bubbly white head. Nasty, fatty and oily. Full of diacetyl and bacon fat. Not good at all.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 8/20
Straw with a short head. Not much scent, just slightly citrus. Thin, sweet and flat. Some caramel in the mouth, but it doesn’t last.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned at the Bag O’Nails, Bristol 27/6/07. A pale copper bitter with a slight white head. Aroma was of floral hops with some grainy malt. Flavour started with biscuity malt before a hoppy finish kicked in. Good.
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