2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
From BA (2007):This beer is brewed for the Rugby World Cup, which is on at the moment. I reviewed it at the Crown Inn, Oakengates: Hand pulled pint.
Bright and clear, it is a light golden bitter with a firm white head.
No great aroma, some hops and malt, but nothing much.
Hoppy and dry in the taste, a little disappointing.
Very dry in the aftertaste and a slight metallic hint arrives towards the end of the flavour.
Not as good as I had hoped, just a bog standard bitter.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. 3.9% Gold with a small white head. Plummy malt aroma. Taste is smooth, gentle, grainy, creamy. Very little bitterness. All rather subdued. A bit like England in the RWC.
1.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
reminds me of another hooky beer! Generation
asked the brewery, didnt dispute that it could have been Generation
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Conditioned, Pear Tree, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. Malty and dry. Not the best Hook Norton beer, but up there.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask Conditioned at The Coach and Horses, Banbury. Golden brown beer with thin head. For the uninitiated, an Outside Half is a position on a Rugby Union team in this case, so presumably this is brewed for the 6 Nations Championship going on at the moment, Rugby is a big deal in England at the moment. The beer is certainly not a world beater unlike the team though, it is a soft malty brew with few other characteristics. There is no Hooky hoppiness worth describing, it is just a little on the boring side.
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