3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned @ Queen Inn, Winchester. Perhaps my favourite Greene King beer (but thats not saying much). Good fruity woody hop aroma. Lightly malty with a full rounded body as a result of the dry hopping. Not bad and seems to mask the GK house character to a high degree.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
A - caramel and molasses
A - dark brown with frothy head
T - light sweet
P - mid to full
O - good
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hand pulled at the Anchor, Birmingham. (NB: the version I tried was 4.5%) Red/brown, with no head. Smooth, slightly choc, dark ale, perhaps like a Scottish example. Rich, slightly spicy malt flavour. Sweet, but slight pepper. Lovely stuff - so much better than the IPA!
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask @ Dog & Bone, Gillingham. "Dry Hopped for a Fruity Flavour." Is the claim. Well there is a HUGE fruity flavour initially which inevitably reminds me of the good days of Bass, but the blackcurrant flavour begins to taste as fake as Ribenna. There is a deadness about the palate and flavour that could be a result of being too long in the cask, or just a feature of poor brewing. It's a dark bitter colour with froth on top. Acceptable, but after the initial hit, not that great.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Cask conditioned: A nutbrown beer with no head (cask). The aroma is pretty sweet with fruit notes. The flavor is very sweet of a good maltblend and with a really good hoppy bitterness - a great balanced beer.
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