Hambleton Stallion

Brewed by Hambleton
Style: Bitter
Ripon, England

Serve in English pint

First tasted this at the Printing Room, Glasgow in September 1997. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear copper red in colour with a thin white head. Sweet toffee note in the short aroma. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt gives a digestive biscuit note with creamy toffee flavours. Good prickle of dusty hops present in the resiny aftertaste. Malt returns in the sweet finish with vinous oak cask notes. A decent session bitter.

cask at guilford ... copper thin white head ... light toffee malt nose ...soft smokey woody fruits ... little toffee ... little dull but still ok

Bottled, filtered, 500ml from Bellingers Garage, Grove, Oxon. Amber with white head. Malty type bitter with a sweetish, fruity character, some dried apricot, peach. An earthy type hop note at the close. Reasonable.

Cask @ Bon Accord. Amber colour, creamy off-white head. Aroma: caramel malts, some hops. Flavour: caramel malts, toffee. Some hops. Fairly sweet, slightly bitter.

On handpull, an amber colour. A slight fruit aroma. A creamy and light palate, fruity and flowery.

Cask on Christian IV in Odense. Amber with a lasting white head. Light floral hops and toffee malt aroma. Medium dry malty flavour with toffee notes and a rather hop bitter finish.

From cask at Charlies. Pours cloudy orange with a lacing off-white head. Light toasted to breadish dry malt aroma. Flavour follows this with a mild fruity note in addition. Light liqourice note into the finish. Finish holds a light bitterness yet still mixed with the same malt flavours. Very pleasent biter.

Cask in Station Bar. This was noteably warm. Artoma is nutty malts, grassy, clishgt lemon note. Taste is again nutty a bit grainy malt, grassy finish.