2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
On cask at Great British Beer Festival, day 3 on 6 August 2009. Yellowish colour. Just a slight haze. To be honest I’m not sure what this is supposed to be. Is it aiming for a German Hefeweizen feel? Or a spicy Belgian Wit style? Or simply another UK "wheat" beer, which is really just a bog standard ale with a little wheat in the mash. I guess it’s a little of each. And it didn’t really work for me. Just ended up as a sweet, rather sherbety confection with a bit of a fruit cocktail feel and a dollop of bubblegum. I can see it might find a niche but it’s not for me.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask-conditioned at the Pear Tree, Hook Norton 30/08/10. Hazy deep gold with a decent white head. Light, citrus aroma with some sweetness and floral hops. Very easy, summer drinking, with lemon and orange fruit, grainy malts and a dry finish. Good stuff.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, gravity at Shrewsbury Folk Festival, 29.08.10 watching a John Kirkpatrick music for Morris workshop. Pours orange gold with a white head, touch of haze. The aroma is a little shy, but taste is good, touch sweet maybe but very likeable, plenty of spices showing notably ginger along with a flurry of bittersweet lemon, bloody good even if it isn’t really like any wheat beer that I would generally class in that catergory. A6 A4 T8 P4 Ov14 3.6
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Golden with a small white head. Fruity aroma with some grainy malt and a floral touch. Fruity sweet flavour, a little tea-like.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Unclear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, citrus - orange - apple. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. Borring. [20090806]
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A Mes rate. Cask at GBBF.
Mid gold with a thin film on top. Mild citrus fruits, lots of orange, some apple and a rather a lot of caramel malt. Too sweet, not enough bitterness. Dull.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask - The Duke of Wellington, Norwich. Hazy golden orange with a fine, bubbly white head. A good collection of citrusy aromas and sweeter fruits with some nice hints of vanilla. Pleasant lemon and apple flavours, a pinch of spiciness but this is mostly creamy, fruity and refreshing. A good, smooth palate, light to medium bodied and a dryish finish. Easy-drinking and plenty of flavours for a session beer.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@GBBF 2009.
Golden color, small white head. Citrusy, orange peel -hoppy aroma. Orange-apple fruity, low bitterness, just some grapefruity hops. Overall sweet malty.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@GBBF2009. Hazy orange colour with small white head. Aroma is mango, vanilla, mild fruitjuice. Flavour is the same, but dominated by wooden dryness.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned at The Olde Reinedeer, Banbury. Sl hazed gold with white head. Not as much of a haze as expected, this has a roasted grain, sweetish flavour, with a lemony, rhubarb background. It hasn’t the spiciness of a continental white, but this makes it more drinkable for me. Lasting and tasty, a good addition to the H.N range.
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