3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest ’12. Amber with white head. Quite heavy on the palate, sweetish, peachy, coating on the tongue. Doesn’t really move away from this apart from a yeasty note.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
3rd June 2012
Cask at the The Sun Inn Summer Beer Festival, Kelvedon. Light haze on this amber beer. Bubbly white head. Light dry palate. Sweet generic boiled fruit sweets with the red ones just dominating. Light malty finish, dry. Okay, a little odd.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours as clear dark yellow with a shortlived head. Floral smell with smell of butter and cider. Slightly dry taste with floral aftertaste. Easy drink.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask gravity at Green Berry Walmer. Copperbrown no real head. Some biscuit some stony yeast. Good biscuit on end. Not keen on yeasty aroma flavour. Fine
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask-conditioned at the Seven Stars, Bristol 5/12/2011. Deep gold with next to no head. Fruity malt aroma with a touch of grassy hops. Flavours of caramel and red berries with a moderately bitter finish. Ok.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Half, from cask (gravity)@The Rake, London. Virtually no head. Body is crystal clear, deep gold. Fruity nose, berries and apples. Dry, restrained malt aroma. Much of the same for the flavor. Some fine fruit tones, and a lightly sweet, soft malt flavor. Firm bitterness. Medium full. Finishes on the drier side with malts, fruits and hops in balance. A pretty nice one.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Gravity at the Rake. Tawny with a loose white head and hints of grapefruit. Maltt but sharply bitter, burnt marmalade notes, dry bitter finish.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask. A hazy golden beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma has notes of matl and diacethyl, as well as some odd spice note. The flavor is very sweet wtih primary notes of malt, but also with lighter notes of diacethyl and fruits, leading to a sweet fruity finish.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask (gravity) @ Smithfield Hotel, 37 Swan St, Manchester, Greater Manchester England M4 5JZ.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, chlorine - plastic, phenol notes, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to modrate bitter with a average duration, plastic, chemistry. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20100120]
1.4 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Cask. Hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma of butter and fruit. Medium body, fairly fruity with loads of phenols and other unpleasantries. Some bitterness in the finish. 200110
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