3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned @ South Western Arms, Soton. Pale colour. Slight citrussy hops with sulphury yeast. Clean with pleasant level of tart citric hoppiness. Quite good but would be better without the insistent yeastiness.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense), Ealing Beer Festival, May 2006. Glowing golden colour, with nice condition. The aroma starts off with a sulphurous whiff, which I’m sure wasn’t intended. This clears up and it develops into a nice clean, fresh beer with some flowery hop character and a grainy note that I assume comes from the wheat, but I wouldn’t like guess what proportion of the mash it makes up. A nice smooth drinker with enough hop character to provide some bite.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A Mes rate: Cask at Baker St JDW. Hoppy nose. Decent semi cloudy body with a bibbly but well behaved head. Ok chunky malty flavour with a bitter hop finish. Wheat is apparent throughout. Nothing special.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask handpull at Simple Simon’s, Canterbury. Hazy gold with lasting bubbly white head. Lemon, cereal aroma. Wheat aroma is quite dry. Hops on aroma too. Quite full in mouth and quite creamy and then excellent hop on end, bitter. Very rounded. Like an English hoppy bitter with wheat added. Hop on end is lovely. Very bitter.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Conditioned at Ealing Beer on Broadway Festival, 2006. Pale gold and a thin white head. The body of the beer is mainly sweet malt, maybe a little wheat and a grainy/cereal like character. A touch of spice and dryness in the finish. Decent.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask: Gold with a sparse white head. Suprising hoppy nose. A bit bland but hoppy in the finish. Thin in body. Drinkable.
1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 3/20
Cask Conditioned, at the Crosse Keys, London.
Clear pale orange coloured body, topped with a sparse, patchy, thin white head. Faint beer-can flavour and aroma. Rusty, metallic flavour, which is sharp and harsh. A shocker.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@Crosse Keys, London. Nice light hoppy aroma, some citrus and tropical fruit. Pallate is quite thin and short, finishes dry and lightly bitter, citrusy and pretty easy to drink.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned at Wenlock Arms. Golden coloured. Fruity aroma. Sweet and fruity flavour. Slightl hoppy finish. It doesn’t taste wheaty.
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