Great Orme Cambria

Brewed by Great Orme
Style: Bitter
Colwyn Bay, Wales

Serve in English pint

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Cask @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, easy roasted, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090806]
Earlier Rating: 9/6/2007 Total Score: 3.1
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2007, London. [Welsh Mountian IPA]. Light yellow amber color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, flowers, citrus, toffee. Initail flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter, finish flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. (Very mild and smooth) Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is flat.

Copper appearance with no head. Citrus hoppy scent with some biscuity malts. Quite carbonated. Quite dry, moderate bitterness. Some hops with cereal malt notes. Bit boring but OK.

Cask at GBBF 2009. OK so I entered this whilst listening to Mozart so it put me in a good mood. Clear amber gold. Lasting beige head. Some decent hop on aroma. Bit light in the mouth, but again decent hop on the finish, ok decent golden ale and I do like the beers from Great Orme, probably my favourite Welsh brewery.
Earlier Rating: 9/21/2008 Total Score: 2.8
Cask gravity at Ashford Rugby Club BF 2008. Slight haze, no head. Yeasty, bit of green apple, not quite ready. But some yeasty character, bit more green apple, but actually it’s not all bad.

Cask@GBBF2009. Coppery colour with small beige head. Deep caramelly notes along with notes of nuts and some wood in the aroma. Flavour is nuts, wood, some fruityness as well as some nuttyness. Pleasant and easy to drink.
Earlier Rating: 8/30/2007 Total Score: 2.8
Cask@GBBF2007. Golden colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is quite much plastic and hoppy. Flavour is grass, hoppy fruits and lots of wood. Some slight notes of yeast. Quite wooden aftertaste.

Cask@GBBF 2009. Copper brown color, small steady beige head. Caramelly and nutty aroma. Grassy hops, caramelly nuttyness in the flavor. Very good beer for being only 3.8%.

UPDATED: NOV 13, 2009 1. Cask Stillage at the Assembly Rooms, Derby Beer Festival 11/07/2008 (As Welsh Mountain IPA) Hop and floral aromas. Golden coloured hoppy and smooth on the palate with some fruit flavour. A little wheat in a slightly dry malt finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 06/08/2009 (As Cambria) Malt aroma. Golden coloured and smooth on the palate with a crisp and slightly hoppy lasting malt finish.

Cask in Blackfriars. Aroma is Malty, slightly sulphurus, grassy and tea like tones. Taste is bready and biscuity, malty base with bittering and a little grassy hop.

A very light amber pour covered by a minimal off-white head. Gently orangey, tartish and citrusy nose with supporting toastiness, but also juicy and slightly plasticy yeast notes. The frequent English stale bread also kicks in and simplify the flavour deployment. Tea-like suggestions in the hoppy finish. Light-medium bodied, flat.

Cask, GBBF 07. Slightly cloudy, goldy copper. Thin off-white head. Nose is dry hoppy, slightly dry dustiness. 1D. Mouth is alcohol and maltiness. Slightly fresh and watery. Watery sweet tannin finish. Alright I suppose.

UPDATED: MAY 2, 2008 Cask conditioned - handpump - GBBF2007. A copper coloured beer with an off-white head. The aroma is slightly hoppy with some good fruity malts. The taste is dry and fruity but quite thin. Pretty average. (7,3,5,3,11(2.9)

Tasted again at Malt Shovel Northampton. Still quite average. PIcked up a bit of lemony hop and less fruity malts this time. Drinkable enough but a bit dull. (6,3,6,3,12(3.0))

Score is an average of the two