3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) @ Blackfriars, 36 Bell St, Merchant City, Glasgow G1 1LG, Scotland.
Clear medium to dark red orange color with a small, fizzy - virtually none, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, berry, prune, moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium full to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20090410]
1.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 5/20
A hazy amber beer with a disappearing sparkly head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of apples. The flavor is slightly sour and dominated by apples, as if it is a cider, the end is dry.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
From bottle, blind #2, courtesy of thewolf. Pours hazy dark orange to brown with a small off-white head. Dry malt and mild spiced hoppy aroma. Sweet caramelish, light roasted. Bitter, caramelish and light spiced flavoured. Dry and bitter into the far finish with a lasting light dry malt note.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask@GBBF2009. Deep ambery orange colour with small head. Aroma is hops, quite nig on caramel malts and also some bready notes. Flavour is wood, some not-too-sweet syrup as well as mild sweet malty notes.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottled. Hazy copper/amber, rich head. Sourish fruity nose. Slender with peppery alcohol and white wine. Very slight caramelly malt. Tart finish, more or less without bitterness.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottled.
Cloudy orange coloured with an off white head.
Aroma of medicine, fruits and malts.
Flavour of honey, medicine and fruits.
Weird beer.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at GBBF08. OK malty aroma. Clear brown colour. Almost no head. The flavour is quite caramelly. Does not taste its ABV until the finish where the alcohol burns a bit.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Blindtasting @ Thewolf. Cloudy orange with a small creamy head. Sweet malty nose. Caramel, toffee, roast, vinous, smooth. Nice.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask gravity at Battersea Beer Festival 2006. Chestnut/amber colour with no head. Sweetish, varnish aroma with some sticky fruit. Sweetish in mouth/some strawberry fruit. Finish has sweet/hop on it. Mind you it didn’t taste like a 7.5% beer. Bit to sticky though
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@GBBF 2009.
Amber color, small white head. Aroma of calvados and raisins. Flavor is similar, raisins, some alcohol, woody hops. Quite nice beer to sip. Well-balanced winter warmer.
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