Hammerpot Shooting Star

Brewed by Hammerpot
Style: Bitter
Arundel, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask (Gallows Bird, Espoo, Fest2013)
Sweet honeyish malts, a little fruity. A lovely rich orange and a light spongy persistent head. Watery palate. A bit earthy and watery, I even get an odd sourness. As dull as dishwater, definitely sub-par after the OK aroma.

Cask Real Ale tasted at GBRAF. Malty nose. Pale beige head. Dark coppery color. Malty hoppy and slightly lemoney taste.

Cask at Gallows Bird real ale festival. Pours amber in color with thin tan head. Nutty, slightly burnt wood and hints of some sweetnesse. Nutty in taste with some salty seawater too. A bit of that saltyness in finish as well.

Cask @ Gallows bird, real ale festival. Copper color, white head. Light smokey, toffeish aroma. Flavor quite the same, also almond like notes and biscuits. Dry, lasting biscuity finish. For this abv ,impressive.

Cask at the Gallows Bird XVI Real Ale Festival, Espoo, Finland. Clear amber colour with small off-white head. Honey, some malty sweetness and mild hops in aroma. Flavour is rather mild. Sugary sweetness, woody dryness, malt and mild notes of floral hops. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

(Cask at Gallows Bird Real Ale Festival ’13) The beer poured deep amber and clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had toffee, malts and fruitiness. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were malts, sweetness, grass, fruitiness and bitterness. Aftertaste was malty, harsh and bitter. An average bitter with nice aroma and a bit unpleasant aftertaste.

500ml brown bottle from Asda. Bottle conditioned. Opened with brown sludge in the neck. never had that before. Beer is not off, but neither is it in top condition. Malt is thin and dry. No carbonation to speak of. Some chocolate and black fruit notes. Just about drinkable, but something has gone wrong, so this is not the beer as it could be. Default score.

Cask@Market Porter, London. Reddish amber colour, small off-white head with a mediumsized white head. Aroma is fruity, caramelly, mild herbal and berryish notes with some slight notes of fudge. Flavour is caramel, toffee, some dark berries, mild herbal and zesty notes as well. Balanced and nice session beer.

Cask @ The White Horse. Chestnut brown color with a wimpy white head. The nose is standard caramel, nuts, spun sugar. The taste is light strawberry, more caramel, semi-dry light hop finish. Light/medium body. Easy drinking. Overall, a decent, but boring bitter. Played straight.

Cask, The Salmon, Leicester. Clear amber bronze with a cream foam. Aromas are weetabix with mellow berries and hints of metal. Black tea with low nuttiness. Flavours are weetabix malts with pear and dry tea. Peppery with blackberry and peppery hops. Decent.