3.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
JDW Spring fest - Rochester. Pale/golden and hoppy best bitter. Hops are fresh and tasaty with a finishing tingle on the tongue. Malt is neutral/dry with some biscuit flavour. Very enjoyable.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Tasted this at the Esquire House, Glasgow (JDW) in April 2010. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear straw in colour with a thin white head. Thin malt in the short aroma with a touch of green apple. Thin insipid resiny mouthfeel and poor lacing. Pale malts give a maltloaf base with faint citric grapefruit notes. Bitter metallic hop resins kick in with strong astringency. Finish is very dry with woody briar notes. A poor session bitter, better Bitters in the extensive Holdens portfolio.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle @ 3.7% ABV. Sulphur, grassy hops, biscuity malt (Marris Otter), fruity, caramel. Bitter. Dry finish. Well carbonated. Thin white head, dark gold body.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500ml bottle at 3.7%. Pours pale orange with a large head. Aroma is grainy, a little dusty and metallic. Taste starts with some watery orange and has a grainy, medium bitter finish. A bit thin but it’s low abv.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Live rate. Bottle from Booth’s, Ilkley. Pours pale and lagery with no visible carbonation and a slim white skim. Metallic, faintly grassy aroma with pleasing hints of apple turnover as it warns. Pleasantly buttery Black Countryness with licks of pine, straw, sugared puff pastry and corn. A bit throwaway and metallic, but it’s alright.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Volunteer Arms, GBBF 2010. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty nutty caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ JDW - The Manchester & County, 49 Piccadilly, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England M1 2AP.
Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, hay, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20100425]
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Cask at Edgar Wallace, Strand, London, 3 Aug 2010) Pale amber colour with foamy, off-white head. Fruity nose with orange, mandarin and floral hops. Fruity taste with notes of orange, mandarin, dried apricots and fresh, floral hops in the finish. Light body, balanced sweetness, generous floral bitterness. Refreshing, nice and highly drinkable.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at The Market Porter.Golden, small froth. Green apples aroma. Flavours of earth and apples. Body is light. Good enough bitter.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
12th April 2010. Clear gold beer. Very light carbonation. Semi dry palate. Not too much malt, just enough to provide a base for some nice hops that cut through. Orange and grapefruit and a dash of spcice. Not a hop bomb but the hops cut through well here.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A Mes rate. Cask at Baker Street ’Sporks.
Clean gold with a faint off white filmy head.Slightly phenolic, virtually no hop presence at all and far too much biscuity malt. Nothing particularlywrong with it, but there is nothing particularlyright about it too. Oh, some bitterness in the finish. There are actually some hops in here... I think.
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