2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at Oxford Pub, London. A hazy amber beer with a thin white head. The aroma has notes of malt and toffee. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and elderflowers, leading to a dry elderflower finish.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask in The Dog & Duck, Soho. Cloudy amber/brown bitter bubbling white head. Nose is grainy cereal, bread, bit of floral. Taste is bread, cereal malt, touch of caramel sweetness. Fairly subdued flavours.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
On tap @ the Haymarket. Pours hazy amber with nice head. Nose of malt and resin. Taste of more resin and apples. Palate medium throughout. Overall, so so!
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Golden colour with a small foamy white head. Light fruity and hoppy nose. Mild malt and hoppy flavour.
[On handpull at The Philharmonic in Liverpool, England]
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at The Gunmakers, London. Pours clear gold with a prickly, white foam head. Some mild fruits in the nose, along with hay. Light sweet flavor with hay, mild cereal and dough, faint leaves. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Sugary sweet finish with doughy bread, very light leafy bitterness, straw and hay. Very basic. Like a cross between a bitter and a golden ale, I would say.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Twickenham beer festival. Lovely session bitter, orange brown, not much head, aroma of malt, a little sulphur and a touch of apple. Malty crisp body with herby hop overlay.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at the Kings Head Moscow road, Bayswater. Frothy white good mostly lasting head. Amber colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Herbal. Oily palate.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 11/20
[3181-20100729] Cask. Odd floral hops soap aroma. Clear, light orange body with a quick bubbly head. Little soapy hops flavour has more oddness to it. Medium body. Weird combination of floral and soapiness.
(@ brewery, Banbury, England)
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Handpump at the Oxford, Kentish Town 01/08/2010
Malt aroma. Golden coloured and a little sweet on the palate. Smooth slightly spicy and peppery with a hint of bitterness in a malt finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@The Oxford. Golden colour, small slightly off-white head. Aroma is lots of honey, some mild spices, bready malts as well as sweet malts. Flavour is quite similar with some nice floral bitterness in it.
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