3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Brownish red with creamy top. Soft fruity toffeeish beer with a plum like background. Tartish finish with continuing fruit, quite good.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, at Newark Beer Festival, May 2004. Notes recovered from a recently unearthed old notebook. Rather dark for a bitter - chestnut, with a reddish tinge. Very fruity aroma, almost volatile and estery - sort of like pear drops (but not in a bad way). Some roast malt in the flavour with a fair ration of tangy, slightly citric, hops. Medium bodied, smooth and very slightly sweet. An interesting and tasty beer. Seasonal and monthly beers from Regionals can be a little dull and uninspired but that is not the case here.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, The Criterion, Leicester. Dark amber/red with a bubbly foam head. Aromas are light roast and toffee malts with spices. Flavours are toffee and caramel malts, fairly sweet with dry and earthy hops. Fruity towards the finish. Pretty decent.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@The Criterion, Leicester. Dark ale with a lightly caramel aroma and a heavily bitter and caramel flavour. Overall an average beer.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
1. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich (JDW) 26/04/2001
Dark coloured bitter and citrussy.
2. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich 12/06/2005
Mid brown colour and slightly rich on the palate. Fruity with some dryness in the malt finish.
3. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich 29/06/2005
Mid brown colour fruity and slightly citrus. Some bitterness and dryness in a malt finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Shakespeare’s Head, Holburn, London. Delicious and with decent head and character. Tasty for rounds.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cssk at Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem, Nottingham.
Hardy and Hanson’s June special, named in commemoration of the year when they first began brewing.
A reddish brown body, creamy head. Smooth, subtle fruitiness to it, kind of berry-ish. Very drinkable, not perhaps the best monthly special but still very encouraging.
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