2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Golden with a small white head. Aroma of caramel and hops. Sweet caramel malt flavour
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
leggremente ambrata buona schiuma discreta persistenza delicato malto leggero luppolo non molto amara
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Sweet, cakey ale aroma. Clear, burnt orange color, OK label. Inoffensive, but not a whole lot of anything really going on - lightly sweet, low hopping for my taste, a bit woody. Goes flat, thin mouthfeel. Rather quick, slightly briny finish. Thanks to Triock for hauling this back from East Sussex.
2.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Pours copper brown. Very little head. Nose is first chocolate and caramel malt and then fruit bouquet. Taste is disappointing. Very little going on. Bit of fruit, bit of caramel malt, but on the palate there is very little other than a watery and fizzy mouthful. Bit cardboardy. Worst Harveys I’ve had - just very little flavour in there. I try to keep an open mind about pasteurisation but this one’s been nuked of flavour.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Thin, watery palate. Dry hops are the main character here but it’s not really an IPA and not something I’d particularly look for again.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
275ml bottle from Westholme Stores, Goring. More a traditional English Pale Ale than an IPA, as used as a mixer in the traditional "Light and Bitter". Amber, little head and heavily carbonated; aroma of stewed malts; similar flavour; some reasonable dry hops to finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Humligare variant av bittern. Fantastiskt mycket humlesmak för att vara så lätt och svag. Men humletonerna är mycket lättare än i amerikanska varianter.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle @ pre-GBBF shindig, August 2009. Can’t say I’m too much of a fan of pasteurized bottled bitters and this was no exception. Especially particularly low ABV ones such as this. Decent amber appearance but not much to enthuse about after that. “Boys” bitters can be quite appealing in cask, benefiting from the freshness and vivacity that treatment can produce. Add some papery notes from pasteurization, bung ‘em in a bottle and you are left with a very dull experience. I suppose there must be a market for this sort of beer (they are traditionally used as mixers in the pub) but I’m not part of it.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
From the Bottle at Chris O’s 05/08/2009
Fruit and some hop aroma. Golden coloured fruity and floral with a little dryness and bitterness in a crisp malt finish.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle 50cl. @ Chriso’s pre GBBF Shindig ’09.
Clear light to medium orange amber color with a small to average, frothy, good - fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, toasted, sweet malt, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20090801]
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