2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, pale malt. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average duration, thin, spicy, sharp. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20111204]
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled. Deep ornage colour. Neutral aroma. Sweet and fruity with clean maltiness. A tremendously bitter finish gives the impression that you have been drinking ink.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottled. Goldeny orange colour with small off-white head. Aroma is fruits, cardboard, some mild grains and mild toffeeish notes. Flavour is toffee, malts, cardboard, some mild grains as well. A bit soapy notes. Not very pleasant.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: APR 4, 2010 Bottle from Tesco. Amber colour, quite rich in mouth bit creamy buttery (diacetyl?) Good solid tangy hop finish. Not bad. 3/6
Cask handpull at The Pullman, Folkestone. Deepish gold, lasting bubbly white head. Quite a nice bitter, some good yeast, very nice hop on finish. Biting. Moderate body with a surprisingly good bitterness on the finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
50cl bottle. Lightly hazed light amber body topped by small off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, orange/floral, some bread/caramel. Taste is medium sweet, grapefruit/floral, some earthy, light lemon, bread. Light-medium body, light acidity, easy drinking.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle conditioned, 500ml from Bellingers Garage, Grove, Oxon. Hazy amber with off white head. Grainy malt note, just a touch on the sourish side with a light farmy note. There is a drying hoppy note, leafy, earthy which pulls it back into shape. Reasonable.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours hazy amber with a transient white head. Nice floral aroma. Near medium body with foamy carbonation. Flavor is mild caramel malt with a floral, mild spice, aspect. It is nicely bitter. The spice aspect continues in the finish. It’s very nice.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A Mes rate. Gravicask at Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. Golden brown with no head. Sweet fruity malt with a really pleasing burnt character. Late bitterness. Nice enough, just one dimensional.
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