2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned at The Wellington, Birmingham. Amber with white head. Bready, yeasty beer with a malty fruity body. Gets reasonably dry and bitter.
1.4 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Tasted this in the Saltcot, Saltcoats (JDW) in August 2009. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear orange amber with a thick creamy off white head. Looked ok but oh the smell. Strong and intense rotten seaweed note in the overpowering aroma and it didn’t come from the nearby shoreline. Thin mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a weak insipid note of caramel and boiled cabbage. Slight hop resin note in the short bitter aftertaste. Finish is weak bitter sweet with seaweed once again to the fore. One to avoid.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask in the alfread herring. Alround rating: Sulphury, caramel, grassy bittering hop, some prune like tartness. Fairly poor.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Oadby. Amber with a small off-white head. Aromas are light caramel with lots of peppery, spicy hops. Lightly floral. Flavours are dry and spicy, peppery hops with sweet fruity notes and caramel. Fruity and yeasty towards the finish. Decent.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Conditioned Handpump Briar Rose Birmingham. A golden beer with a white head. The aroma is thin and a bit yeasty as if edging towards the bottom of the barrel. The taste is very bitter, but again a bit washed out.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Bright amber with a dense off-white head; light flowery aroma; smooth and oily texture with apricot and orange fruit and sweet chewy malts; pleasing bitter finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at Bow Bar Edinburgh ... copper thin creamy tan head ... ligth fruity hop ... sweet fruity hop little grassy ... little toffee mal;t ... quite juicy and went down lovely.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
A Mes rate: Gravicask at Ealing Beer Festival.
Golden amber colour with a thin white film. Aroma of fruity malt, wheat and straw. Dusky marzipan flavour. Interesting but nothing much happening. Not great.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask gravity at Ealing Beer Festival 2008. Deep amber/copper colour with thin beige head. Perfumey beer, ok fruit salad in mouth. No real condition. Fruit salady strong bitter.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Stillage from the Outside Bar at the Kelham Island Tavern, Sheffield 23/06/2007
Hoppy aroma. Golden amber coloured hoppy fruity and slightly rich on the palate. Some bitterness in a lasting malt finish.
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