3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml Bottle - Copper coloured with a small head. Fruity aroma with dried fruit and spicy malt. Fruity and slightly hoppy taste with notes of toffee, nuts and dried fruit.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
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.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
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.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Crispin, Wokingham. Copper coloured with a loose cream head; fruity aroma; fruity flavour - blackcurrant and plum - slightly sour at first, then sweeter; with some peppery hops giving a rounded bitter finish. Very drinkable.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear medium to dark red amber colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, blackcurrant notes, light to moderate hoppy. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average duration, thin, caramel, blackcurrant notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20120114]
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Cask at Cask Pub & Kitchen, Pimlico, London, 22 July 2011) Pale reddish brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, slightly fruity nose with notes of dark bread, nuts and caramel. Malty, fruity taste with caramel, dark bread, dark fruit and a mild bitterness in the finish. Light body, with balanced sweetness. Decent.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at The Sportsman, Amberley, West Sussex. Pours a clear deep amber with a small semi-lasting fluffy white head. Aroma is malty and nutty along with some fruit, not really any hops to speak of. After a few more goes I got a whiff of faint leafy hops. Flavour is malty along with more hops then the aroma suggest and some nuts. Average bodied. Pretty good.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
tap at bow ... copper ... thin tan head ... soft fruits... soft sweet toffee malts ... light hop ... soft and juicy ...
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Claret Free House. It pours dark amber, with a thin foamy beige head and soft carbonation. The nose is wood, nut, farmyard, digestive biscuit, cardamom and ginger. The taste is wood, astringent, nut, light caramel, lemon, grass and ginger, with a dry finish. Smooth and balanced.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at the Foresters, Church Crookham. Pours a dark brown colour with a good size head. The aroma is all malt with a hint of fruit, the taste is all malt and fruit that leads to a sweet finish.
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