3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask - The Kings Head, Norwich. Poured with a fading though mostly lasting bubbly white head atop a deep and clear chestnut brown body. Red fruit, toffee & toasted malt aromas with some lighter biscuit notes. Some nice red fruits again on the tongue, roasty malts, coffee, earth & toffee. Soft mouthfeel, medium body with a short to medium length finish, a relatively dry finish and a lingering sweet malty aftertaste.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (CWAF2012)
Dark reddy brown. Sweetish creamy stuff with roast finish. Honey aroma. Smooth palate. Honey in the taste too, that builds over time. Phil likes it, but gets oregano, which is a bit weird.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned at The Wig & Pen, Northampton. Chestnut with white head. Fruity, roasty beer, some drying roast nut flavour leading to a drying bitterness. Lasting on the palate. Very decent.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at the Edgar Wallace. Pours a clear, copper-ruby with a foamy, off-white head. Great aroma, nice pine and citrus, some straw. Nothing like an old ale...Pretty well balanced flavor. Has some bread, faint fruits, mild grass, light sugar. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly bitter finish, faint plastic, some wood and earth, mild citrus hops. Like a bitter, not an old ale. Can’t help but think this beer was mislabled.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
3rd February 2011
Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. Loads of beers shared with ChrisO and Harrisoni - Cheers! Clear dark amber beer. Residual tan head. Light dry palate. A little toffee malt and quite a vibrant orange in the dry hoppy finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (gravity dispense). Beer #18 at Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival on 3 February 2011. Toffee is prominent in the aroma. Touch of burnt tar. Lots of caramel malt on the palate. Toffee quite marked in the flavour too. Hints of sharp fruit. Sweetish. Mouthfeel is a little dull and flat.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask gravity at Chelmsford BF 2011. Deep chestnut colour thin beige head. Its an ok strong ale with some malty fruit. Some biscuit on aroma some ok ESB style fruit anf flavours. Decent
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
On Cask at the Bow Bar Winter Beer Festival (Edinburgh). Pours a very dark, clear brown with some head. Coffee/nut on the nose, maybe cinnamon? Very smooth, oily body. Some fruity, malty goodness in the initial taste. Goes down well, very drinkable.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
cask at cloisters ... red brown ... sweet woody malts nose ... light sweet wooody toffee ... light hop bitterness ... light fruity malts.... decent easy drinkin
3.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, gravity, at The Pig ’n’ Falcon, St Neots, Cambridgeshire. Brown with a sweet malt aroma. Sweet leathery taste with a hint of plummy fruit and a slight bitter finish. Rather good.
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