3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask Handpump at the Penny Black JDW, Northwich 04/04/2011
Pine aroma. Small white head. Golden coloured hoppy fruity and initially a little sweet on the palate with a bitter and dry lasting malt finish.
2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
30th March 2011
JDW Fest. Hazy amber, residual white head. Light palate, no carbonation. Semi dry. Insipid sweetish oraneg hop and dry malt. Doesn’t taste awful but was uninteresting to the point of being hard to swallow.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Gold with white head. Really thin on the palate, there is a little lemon fruitiness, much in the same way washing up liquid is lemony, sweet, quite chemical saccharine. Not very good, but the only new beer on in a week here.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask @ Sir John Moore, JDW. Dark golden colour, off-white head. Aroma is light malted, bit of caramel. Flavour is caramel malts, light fruits. Slightly sweet and bitter finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Prince Arthur (JDW), Fleet. Amber with a thin cream head; thick and syrupy, but not sweet, with some tropical fruit flavours; and a warming, spicy bitterness to finish.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask handpull at Spoons Montagu Pyke. Charing Cross Road. Hazy pale brown with thin head. Diacetyl aroma. Oh dear. Some fruit malt in mouth but the butter is really dominant. Rest if beer is ok but too much diacetyl. Some blackcurrant fruit. Disappointing.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
From cask at Cross Keys. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is butterish and caramelish to malty. Dry and herbal bitter UK hops. Bitter and malty. Slight cornish. Butterish finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, The Highcross, Leicester. Amber with a thin cream foam. Aromas are toffee and weetabix malts with mixed autumn fruit. Some chocolate with cookie dough yeast. Also some citrus. Flavours are biscuit and toffee with sweet fruitiness. Some floral notes with a dry, fruity finish. Quite heavy on the palate. Decent.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
JDW Spring Festival, 2011. Fruity and easy drinking with few hops - just enough to add a touch of balance. Pleasant stuff.
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