3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, butter notes, light moderate hoppy. Flavour is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, malty, light acrid bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120805]
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled@chriso. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, grainy and some mild herbal notes. Flavour is fruity, woody, caramelly and a bit floral notes. Quite grassy hoppyness as well in the finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Handpump at the Shakespeare Inn, Coalport 20/08/2005
Golden coloured and hoppy with a little sour fruit flavour. Crisp on the palate with a hint of dryness and bitterness in the finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled, 500ml from Waitrose, Headington, Oxon. Orange gold with slight head. Honeyed character, thickish with a slight chemical, salty background. There is a resinous hint over the thinnish malt. A bit of an odd one this.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Tuckers Maltings. Golden yellow, mid-sized head. Shy malty base with lots of bitter and aromatic hops. Very light.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle from Lutterworth Waitrose. Bright gold with a high fluffy collar. Unwholesome boiled vegetable and cardboard aroma with hints of pine, honey and metal. Soapy and slick with notes of honey, pastry,chlorine and vegetables.Astringent metallic aftertaste. Struggled with this: the sink got some.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Copper coloured beer with a strongish white head. The aroma is hopped with a touch of caramel, and the flavour is quite bitter with a malty toffee'ness. Overall a good bitter and toffee flavoured beer.
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3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. A pleasant and refreshing light bitter.One of the first bottled beers I tried when it was very difficult to get hold of ant decent bottled beers.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Global Wines, Bearwood. Pour orangey yellow, with a ring of white lace/froth. Aroma is a bit startling - dry, crusty etc. It tastes like a traditional Black Country Bitter - which it is. Dry, honey hued, sugar malted, breakfast cerealed, wallpaper flecked. Pretty crisp and clean, with a lingering finish. Pleasant enough. Uncompromising and traditional.
3.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
500ml brown bottle, best before Oct 2010, poured in my small ’La Chouffe’ tulip glass three times (on Saturday 21 Aug 2010).
Looked a picture, bright golden/light amber body with a lovely snow white foaming crown on top for each pour.
Grainy aroma, with a subtle hop presence around too.
The flavours blend well, hops dominate the initial taste, but the malts come through as the mouth warms the beer up, only for the hops to win the day as a bitterness arrives as the mouth dries.
I like Holden’s beers, they are uncomplicated, honest and very drinkable. I am suprised I haven’t reviewed a few more, because I regularly drink their beers on cask.
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