Hop Back Maypole Axed

Formerly brewed at Hop Back
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Salisbury, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Draught (St. Urho’s, Helsinki) Light yellow, light head. Odd savoury aroma, some yeastiness, some apples and some oddness. Taste is similar, but without the apples. Some odd brown mush of flavours, dominated by the bitterness which leaves an unpleasant 1-dimensional bitter aftertaste. Hop Back can do far better.

Cask Stillage at the Community Centre, Frodsham 25/05/2001 Light coloured and hoppy with a bitter finish.

Cask@Black Door
Pale yellow color, small steady white head. Honeyish-hoppy aroma, some homemade booze notes (old cask?). Light palate. Honeyish flavor, touch of hops in the finish. Thirst-quencher.

Cask@Ealing BF. Very light. Texture is grainy and thin, with some lightly earthy citric hops in the finish. Not much happening to be honest, but i guess its drinkable. If a bit boring.

Cask @ "The Wharf", Aalborg. Golden in colour with a white head. Clear. The aroma is of spicy hop and a bit of yeast. The flavor is of bitter hops and malt that lingers.

A Mes rate: Gravicask. Golden colour with lots of floaters. Slight sulphur in the nose. Citric and wheaty flavour that has reasonable balance. Boring.

Half pint gravity fed from the cask at the Ealing Beer Festival, a slight haze to the golden colour with a white bubbly head. A pungent malt aroma with a hint of fruit. The palate was smooth with a bitter finish that was a little tart. There wasn’t much flavour, just a basic ale - but did get better through the glass.

Cask conditioned @ Waterloo Arms, Soton. Golden. Drinkable but lacking in flavour. Moderately dry with a bit of bitterness. Fine but uninteresting.