Goffs Tournament

Brewed by Goffs
Style: Bitter
Winchcombe, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask Conditioned @ The Royal Standard, Wooburn Common, Bucks. Golden/copper coured with no head and good condition. Aroma is floral, hoppy. Flavour is floral and very hoppy (piney/resiny) with some odd sour/soapyness. Quite nice but not outstanding attempt at a heavily hopped bitter.

First tasted this in the Three Judges, Glasgow in March 2004. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear pale amber in colour with a tight creamy white head. Warm yeasty bread notes in the short aroma. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt gives a strong digestive biscuit note with slight hints of toffee apple in the mouth. Spicy herbal notes in the hop resins gives a tart woody aftertaste. Finish is slightly malty with hazelnut overtones. An ok session bitter but a bit bland.

Cask at the Bird in Hand, Ironbridge. Pours amber with a large head. Aroma is bready malt and pithy orange. Starts with bitter orange and finishes with orangey malt.

Cask, Derby Fest 10. Amber brown with an off-white foam. Aromas are malty with ripe pear and citrus. Toffee with green apple. Flavours are toffee and weetabix malts with pear. Grapefruit with light chocolate on the finish. A decent bitter but at least it’s not another bloody golden ale.

Cask. Copper colour, small off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, fruits, wood, mild nuttyness as well as mild sprucelike notes. Flavour is quite alike but dominated by fruits and some red berryish notes.

Hand pulled at Penny Blacks,Birmingham. Light brown, with scum top. Nice jammy hops in the mouth. Not too strong, not too overbearing, just lip-smacking and slightly orangey. Nice finish.

Cask at the Crosse Keys. Session bitter that starts out quite balanced with the proper malty body and enough hops. But there is some refined sugar in the finish that does not come out well.

cask at spoons wimbledon. Light amber in colour, off white fine head. Fruity fresh nose, pleasant taste, well balanced and nothing wrong if a bit bland. Good session beer

Cask at the Kingston Arms, Cambridge. Copper coloured with a ring of off-white head; sour malt aroma; pleasantly sour flavour supported by good malts; the finish is rather sticky with dry leafy hops giving a sustained bitterness.

Cask at Gilford Arms Edinburgh ... copper ... thin tan head ... sweet malt nose ... musty fruitys ... some toffee .. some citrus and light toasted oats in background.

cask 568ml 6,1€ at Gallows Bird Espoo 161008 amber transparent taste: dash of fruitines and malty very pleasant strongish afterkick of bitterness. Session beer, more please.