1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask (gravity dispense), St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Lots of argument on this one. So I had a re-taste and thought that everyone else was probably right. Orange/copper colour with a slight haze and diacetyl touch. Probably not totally settle, but the malt in the mouth was good. Good earthy hops throught out with dry hop finish. However, it was ruined by the diacetyl
1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Cask@St Albans Beer festival. Sweet and malty to start. Some green apple and sulfuric edges. Tasted a little infected to me, finishes citric and hoppy.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask (gravity dispense), St Albans Beer Festival 2005 (last day). Golden colour. Diacetyl all the way with this one. So much so that I found it difficult to pick up much else at all. Rather thin, with some bitterness. Poor conditioning could take some of the blame..
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - St Albans BF. A golden coloured beer with lots of diacetyl and toffee in the aroma. The taste is full of diacetyl also and there is a farty sulphuric taint. Diacetyl doesn’t have to bad, but with this beer it really was overpowering.
1.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 1/20
St Albans. Gravity. Touch of diacetyl, though plenty of rough hops to hide it. On the whole this appears to be a crude, poorly made beer, but - judging from the whole day’s events - is more likely to be bad cellarmanship.
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