2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@The White Hart Inn, Winchcombe. Flat looking reddish beer with a gently hopped aroma and a weakly hopped and roasted flavour. Overall a very disappointing beer.
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.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pint at the Old Manor in bracknell. Dark amber with a creamy head. Tastes dry and hoppy. Hoppy aroma, bit of malt. Not bad, a little fruity, nice.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark amber color, off-white head. Smell mostly malts. Taste mainly bitter (as it should I suppose) Little bit low body and carbo.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
(draught) pours a clear golden colour with a ruby tinge and a small off-white head. aroma of raisins and caramel, toasted rye bread, light resin and strawberries. flavour is fruitier, with more strawberries and lots of peaches over a caramel and toasted malt base, quite resinous, with a medium-bitter finish. medium-bodied with very soft carbonation. too heavy.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pint in Dog & Duck, Soho. Pours light brownish amber. Nose is bready, sweet malt, and some fruity hop aromas. Taste is dominated by hops, and most likely some dry hopping as it’s really quite dry and chewy in the mouth. Wet grass is the dominant flavour with a backbone of sweet cereal malt. Finish is so dry though.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ GBBF 2010. Pours a clear copper color with a small off-white head. Has a slightly roasted malty toffee aroma. Fruity sweetish malty toffee flavor with some hoppy hints. Has a slightly roasted malty toffee finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, nutty, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, nutty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100806]
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