2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at GBBF 2006. An unclear dark red-brown beer with a brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with light notes of caramel and cola. The flavor is sweet with notes of brown sugar, caramel, and straw, as well as light notes of metal.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml Bottle - Copper coloured. Malt, dried fruit, hops and a roasted hint in the aroma. Fruity and malty taste with notes of caramel, raisins and hops.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (handpump) at the Great British Beer Festival, 3 August 2006. Brown/mahogany colour. Quite dark for an ordinary bitter. Dry, malty aroma with some caramel notes. The flavour has a decent malt backbone with balancing earthy hops. Smooth but firm mouthfeel. Moderate bitterness. Plenty of flavour for a session bitter. I thought this was pretty good, even if others around weren’t too impressed.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Hobgoblin, Reading. Dark gold with a thin cream coloured head; attractive orange malt aroma; sharp fruity citrus flavour to start followed by a mellow honey sweetness; sustained dry herbal bitterness to finish. An excellent session bitter.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at Bow bar edinburgh ... brown ... light bubbly head ... light malty nose ... bitter front ... musty malt ... fair bit of bitter hop ...
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Amber/brown with a small pock-marked of white head. Farmyard smells with hints of malt. A little nothingy flavour-wise, some light roasty flavours with a green pine aftertaste. Thin and a little oily. Drinkable but not over pleasant.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Eastbourne Beer Festival, 11th Oct 2008. Nice session beer - good peach and apricot flavours, decent hopping. Palate is light and drinkable, aroma not quite so hot. Clear amber.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
bottle thanks to tashi. Mahogany colour, thin white rim. Very musky all round, with a bit of leather added in aroma and a lot of woddy vanilla in flavour. Prickly mouthfeel, quite round all toghether. nice bitter finish, quite like.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A Mes rate: bottle thanks to Tashi.
Nice red brown colour with a thin white rim. Nice earthy malt and decent fruit. Sweet initial flavour with more dry earthy hops with a nice prickly tang. Very dry on the finish. Not bad.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle conditioned, courtesy of David Smith. Deep copper bronze, lasting off white head and fine condition. Pleasant nutty caramel and slight earthy hop note in the nose, full bodied and slightly bitter in the mouth with a gentle caramel sweetness, drying off slightly in the finish with a lingering earthy hop bitterness.
0.7 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 1/20
BCA (from Bitter Virtue). Very thin overly fizzy yeasty and infected. A little sweet malt. Very poor.
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