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Brewed by Hop Back
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Salisbury, England

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RATINGS: 6   MEAN: 3.12/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.93   SEASONAL: Special   EST. CALORIES: 120   ABV: 4%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Cask; Special - August 2010.
A golden session ale with a pronounced hoppiness coming from two different varieties of Styrian Goldings; Bobek and Celeia. These Slovenian hops give this beer a crisp bitterness and a deliciously hoppy flavour with a seductive flowery nose.


3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
imdownthepub (7491) - Banbury, - AUG 27, 2010
Cask conditioned at The Mariners Tavern, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk. Pale Gold with white head. Light perfumed bitter, Flowery hopped, thin malt, a little flabby.

3.3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Ungstrup (23975) - Oamaru, NEW ZEALAND - JUL 18, 2011
Cask at GBBF 2010. A hazy yellow beer with a lazing yellowish head. The aroma has notes of spices and hops. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of spices, medium notes of hops, and light notes of malt, leading to a rather bitter finish.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
fonefan (25125) - VestJylland, DENMARK - DEC 26, 2010

Cask @ GBBF 10, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, moderate hoppy, citrus, graoefruit, cat piss notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100803]

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
DJMonarch (9151) - Northwich, Cheshire, ENGLAND - AUG 28, 2010
Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 03/08/2010 Floral hop aroma. Clear golden coloured hoppy and floral with a hint of dryness in a slightly creamy malt finish.

2.6
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
oh6gdx (16047) - Vasa, FINLAND - AUG 22, 2010
Cask@GBBF2010. Yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, mildly vegetably as well slightly honeyish. Flavour is wood, some fruits, mild earth as well as bready.

3.3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
yespr (22205) - Copenhagen O, DENMARK - AUG 4, 2010
From cask. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is grassy and mild citrusy. Citrusy, grassy and sweet flavoured. Goes rather dry and bitter into the finish.


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