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

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common

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common

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RATINGS: 512   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.12   EST. CALORIES: 150   ABV: 5%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Cask: Regular. Also available bottle conditioned.
Terrific straw-coloured beer with a fresh, hoppy aroma and a well rounded, malty flavour with an intense bitterness which leads to an excellent long, dry finish. Winner of numerous, prestigious awards, most notably Best Strong Bitter at The Great British Beer Festival in 1992/93.
Ingredients: Optic pale malt. East Kent Goldings and Challenger hops (The bottled version uses EKG only).


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2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
Idiosynkrasie (1987) - Bielefeld, GERMANY - AUG 18, 2012
500ml bottle. Slightly cloudy pale golden colour with average to huge, frothy, moderately lacing, white head. Decent malty, minimally grainy aroma with a touch of wet straw. Taste is grainy, slightly dry hoppy with a minimally soapy touch, has also a minimally earthy vegetable note.

3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 13/20
teddybeer (1533) - Madrid, SPAIN - AUG 17, 2012
At Kloster (Madrid). Golden with a minimal formation of a white head, nice lacework. Aroma is hoppy and fresh. Flavour is slightly sweet, floral with a medium bitterness and perhaps slightly metellic hints. The final is dry and bittery. Carbonation is medium. Body is light to medium.

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
chrisv10 (8095) - DENMARK - AUG 10, 2012
Bottle, 5%. Slightly hazy pale golden with small white head. Aroma is malt and a little hop. Flavour is malt, little sweet, hops, grass, little lemon and medium bitter.>

2.9
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
Rasmus40 (7339) - Beder, Aarhus, DENMARK - AUG 10, 2012
Bottle from Bierzwerg. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. 100812

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
mile (2162) - Helsinki, FINLAND - AUG 1, 2012
Bottle. Light golden, hazy, small to average and mostly diminishing head. Light moderate malty - lightly grainy and lightly sweetish aroma, light citrus - grassy hoppyness. Body is medium, malty - lightly grainy and lightly sweetish flavor, light grassy - herbal hoppyness. Finish is average, malty and dryish, some grassy - herbal and bit sharp hoppyness. OK dryish golden ale.

3.4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 12/20
jdpeebs (636) - Sydney, AUSTRALIA - JUL 28, 2012
Bottle- Pale in colour. This brew is light, crisp, and dry, but it is full of subtle flavours.

2.3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
Frenger (367) - Derby, Alabama, ENGLAND - JUL 26, 2012
From bottle. Sooooooooo fizzy I can’t really taste anything. There is some bitterness at the end once my mouth has calmed down but not much.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
swooper (1242) - Cambridge and Kladno(Czech Rep.), Cambridgeshire, ENGLAND - JUL 26, 2012
Cask. Grainy and a but dry hoppy aroma. White small head. Yellow to gold clear. Straight almost sharp bitterness with slight sweetness. Full end and finish. Fill mouth of hop. Good stuff

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
knickskicks (503) - - JUL 22, 2012
Cask. Pale yellow. Small white head that leaves some lacing. Quaffable beer with light grass and lemon notes.

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 12/20
kiwianer (2464) - Mönchengladbach, GERMANY - JUL 21, 2012
The head is medium, the color orange-golden. It smells hoppy grassy, strong lemon grassy. The taste is a bit grassy, a bit bitter, special. Overall interesting and Medium. 10/9/8/9/10/9


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