3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at the Cask & Cutler, Sheffield 17/12/2005
Bronze coloured with a very fruity slightly sour aroma and flavour. Crisp on the palate with a dry and slightly creamy full malt finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at the Ship in Whitstable. A Christmas beer that ticks most of the boxes - fruity, amber/red in colour with a chewy malt character. Nothing special but rather a standard bitter dressed up for Yuletide.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned at The Chandlers Arms, Epwell, Oxon. Orange amber beer with chunky white head. Dry tasty bitter, slightly on the thinnish side but a very decent session ale. Not what you would call a Christmas ale and perhaps should not be marked as such, it is a pleasant dry malty ale.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
On cask at Freshfield Hotel,Formby.
Clear, bright appearance. Not a lot of complexity for a ’Christmas Special’.
An easy drinking session ale.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask handpull at Thomas Ingoldsby (JDW) Canterbury. Pale copper colour. Tight lasting head. Citric hop and creamyness. A bit like how I remember Boddingtons being back in the early nineties. Quite sharp on the end and some very light caramel
3.2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 20/20
JDW, Leytonstone. Attractive strawberry notes in a pleasant session bitter.
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