High House Farm Matfen Magic

Brewed by High House Farm
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask@Derby Summer Beer Festival 2006. Reddish beer with a hopped aroma and a lightly fruity and lightly hopped flavour. Overall a nice beer.

First tasted this at the Paisley Beer Festival in April 2005. Cask, gravity dispense. Clear copper red in colour with a thin white head. Pleasant sweet aroma of toffee, short in intensity. Thin but smooth mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt gives a long digestive biscuit flavour which is laced with soft caramel and hedgerow berry notes. Strong note of hop resins gives a dusty, earthy, metallic aftertaste which combines well with the sweet malt. Finish is robust and full bodied with soft sweet caramel and dry milk chocolate notes. An old fashioned style of ESB and highly recommended.

500 ml bottle in Germany from shrubber85. Had at Wasana’s with Steptin and Bottleman. Pours a darker amber color with a very full white head. Taste is caramel and some fruit. Palate is mellow and this was a nice ale.

Bottle shared by Mattias at the beer store formally known and the Bottle Shop in Idar Oberstein - many thanks! Nice toffee and slight dark fruit flavors. A good ale.

Cask The Twice Brewed Inn, Bardon Mill, Northumberland Beautiful glass, dark amber with moderate white head. Faintly sweet aroma with berry notes. Sweet and fruity taste. Quite lovely.

Bottle. Sweet berry and toffee malt aroma - very nice. Clear amber color with moderate head. Slightly sweet berry and toffee malt flavor with a mildly bitter grass hops finish. Medium body. Very nice.

Slightly amber coloured pint, decent head. Taste is malty, biscuity, slightly sweet with a fruity bitter finish. Nice pint.

Cask @ Guildford Arms. Amber colour, white head. Aroma is fruity, with biscuit malts. Flavour is biscuit, orange. Sligthly sweet finish. Refreshing.

1) Cask handpull at High House Farm. Deep tawny amber slicked with white. Musky, berryish and slightly dank aroma. Marzipan, oak and strawberry hints; vanilla, biscuit and a bit of beefiness. Not bad. 2) Bottle purchased at the farm, filtered but not pasteurised by the looks of it. Bright chestnut pour with a dissipating white head. Musky herbal hop aroma with strong ganja notes, berries, vegetables and weetabix. Slightly dank and herbal in the mouth; marzipan and medicinal cherry edging out the hops, chocolate, berry and caramel hints. Dry hop bite to finish with some northern stoniness. Bit too much alcohol, and the aroma hops get drowned out in the mouth, but a pretty soild bottled bitter.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at Fin’s excellent Merton Beer Festival.
An excellent bright amber colour with a thin but good white head and in very good condition. A good fruity and sugary brown ale type aroma with some pale malt and faint hops. Similar flavour. Very fruity and sweet. Nice dry, fruity finish. Interesting and rather tasty.

Cask conditioned at Harbury Beer Fest ’07. Chestnut colour with white head. Lovely fruit, wild berries, brown ale, full bodied with a sweetish background. Vague but interesting hop note giving a beery aroma with rich malts. Really good beer.