3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 9/20
3.6% amber colour with a thin head, hop aroma, a nice light hop taste and very easy to drink.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
First tasted this at the Renfrew Beer Festival in October 1991. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear pale amber in colour with a thin white head. Slight yeasty bread note in the short aroma. Thin resiny mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt gives a dry digestive tea biscuit note with a hint of weak berry fruit. Booming resiny hops deliver a ringing metallic aftertaste. Finish is hoppy with floral astringency. This beer sums up how many poor English IPA’s there are out there - take a look at Thornbridge to see how its properly done!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
At Stansted airport. Very good balance. Aromas of caramel, cola, and peach. Taste is sweet, with bitter notes, and long length. Palate is oily, and medium bodied. Orange, with a frothy head.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Amber in colour. Aroma of slight hops, fruit and some sweetness. Light body, slightly sweet faint hops and nuts. Finishes with a mild bitterness.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at a random pub in London. Dark copper/amber color, creamy white head, Some hints of hops, way too little for me to ba an IPA. Medium body, malty sweet and more like a English Bitter than an IPA.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask. Clear golden pour, thin white head. Aroma is spicy and a bit swampy. Flavor is slightly bitter and a bit metallic. Somewhat chemical. Not too good.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: MAR 6, 2012 Handpull in London. Clear dark copper colour with a small white head. Very hoppy aroma. Light bitter taste. Sadly a little bit thin, low carbonation.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
I grew up on this stuff and something I really miss now I live in Australia.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pint, apple juice colour with a few bubbles. One finger head which the beer retained well. Nice yeasty wheaty aroma. Tasted berries and wheat. Beer had a nice balanced bitterness. Lots of flavor for the low alcohol content. Top session beer.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask, somewhere in London when on holiday. Clear dark copper color, small lacing on top. Don’t smell much, just a slight bitterness. Taste is pretty poor, weak, lightly bitter, nothing more. Not even a nice bitterness. No carbo, no body.
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