3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20Copper coloured with rich malt and toffee flavours, slight floral notes and a sweet fruity finish.
3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught. This is a nice session bitter with a mild flavour and full body. Worth a go if they have it at the pub.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at The Bell, Waltham St Lawrence. Bright copper with a ring of white head; malty aroma; simple malty flavour with a touch of farmyard; some roasted peanuts then contribute to the dry finish. An everyday bitter.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cloudy amber ale with associated citrus fruitiness in both aroma and flavour.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Tesco. Aroma of caramel, chocolate and yeast. Similar flavours and mildly bitter with moderate carbonation and a foamy mouth-feel.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Golden with a medium body. Slight trace of fruitiness with some bitterness also present. Reasonable but not very inspiring.
3.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tawny coloured body, off-white head: this was beer number 4 (all halves) at a beerfest in The George Inn, Eccleshall (April 2012).
Gravity poured straight out the barrel: some hop smells but not a lot of anything in the nose really.
Nicely balanced taste, the malts blend in well with the hop content and a mixed bag of summer fruits appear in the flavour: easy to drink and although it doesn’t really test your tastebuds too greatly it is a fine bitter.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Tasted this in Coanes, Johnstone in June 2009. Cask, handpump dispense. Opaque tawny in colour with a thin white head. Slight sweet note in the short aroma. Thin mouthfeel and decent lacing. Pale malt gives a digestive biscuit base with sweet raisin fruit present. Tart resiny hops gives a dry aftertaste. Bitter sweet finish. Not at all complex - just like the rest of the bland portfolio.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask @ The King’s Highway JDW, Inverness.
Copper, clear, thin white head, moderate lacing.
Aroma - very little, faint spicy hop.
Taste - caramel, bit fruity, bitter slight spicy hop, some biscuity malt, hint of toffee.
Palate - soft carb, thin body. Finish - dry, bitter, bit fruity with a bitter, sourish, slightly metallic tail that lingers.
Overall - Hmmm...average.......
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ Camperdown Place, JDW. Slightly hazy orange colour, generous off-white head. Nose is light malted, sour and fruity. Flavour is malty, wheat, fruits, sour, a bit biscuity. Slightly sour finish. Quite an odd bitter.
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