2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hand pulled at the Criterion, Leicester. Slightly rosy, and still - like scrumpy. A very plain Bitter, which does improve with each swig. A prolonged sour flavour - not pronounced or distinct, but there - like sea mist, it just rolls in and hangs. Some citrus tang in the coppery hops. Metallic mouthfeel.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned - handpump - JDW, Northampton. A golden coloured beer with an off-white head. The aroma is sweetish and has banana notes. The taste is again quite estery just like the Grainstore beer I had before this one. Not sure if this was the intention with the pair of them or what, but they failed to live up to the quality of most Grainstore beers.
2.2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask at Bankers Draft (JDW), Bedford, in Wetherspoons Real Ale festival, though not included in the official lists. Gold with a small white head. Faint aroma, possibly malty. Slight citric taste with some background biscuit. Som bitterness. Rather ordinary. Won some award a few years ago. Don’t know why.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask conditioned at The Turf Tavern, Oxford. Straw colour with white head. Thin light, biscuity beer, some tea leaf flavour but nothing much to grab hold of. A bit of a non entity.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
A Mes rate: Gravicask at Nottingham Beer Festival.
Pale golden brown. Hops and malt and tea. Not even close to exciting. Blah.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: OCT 17, 2008 Clear ruddy amber. Black Sheep chalk and heady autumnal fruit. Sweetly malty digestive biscuit afters lingering long after the swallow. Tasty, unfussy bitter.
(Re-rate, cask, Knickersby ’Spoons) Robust, clean freshbread maltiness that clings to the palate. Light peardroppy fruit, tea and crackerbread. Solid background bittering hop, silky alkalinity, slight disinfectant note. Otherwise, really decent.
1.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 6/20
Cask Conditioned, at the Market Porter, Borough, London
Bullion gold colour, soft white head. Next to no aroma. Flat, wet/washed out flavour with no body or structure. Flabby.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Amber with a short head. Very flowery scent. Thin with a slight fizz. Hoppy with a somewhat bitter, dry finish. Rather lacking in taste.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at the Vernon Arms, Liverpool 20/05/2002
Golden coloured and sliightly rich on the palate. Malty with a pleasant hop finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Bishop’s Arms, Malmö
Amber color. Light malt aroma, with very light hop and fruits. Weak structure (it’s not a strong beer), but anyway with some malt, caramel and a very strong bitterness, also very long.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Bishop’s Arms Malmö. Colour is amber. Malty aroma and a little nutty. Malty flavor, a little sweet. Some bitterness in the aftertaste. Very easy drinking.
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