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

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RATINGS: 510   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).


Voivod's rating

3.9
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
Voivod (304) - Como, - AUG 3, 2003
Nice golden colour, few head. The aroma is fruity (apricots and lemon).Light and refreshing malty flavour with fruity traces, with a good hoppy finish, not too bitter. Really interesting.


most recent ratings

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
Bart (2914) - Brussels, BELGIUM - MAY 13, 2013
50cl Bottle @ local Tesco. Yellow golden blond coloured beer with some very light carbonation and a larger white head. Pilsener malty hinted aroma with some distant fruity light hoppy notes. Medium to full palate. FInish is bitter hoppy with a longer dry very bitter ending. Not quite balanced but ok.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Bozo_skeleton (137) - Grenoble, FRANCE - APR 1, 2013
Plutot agreable, mais un poil trop sucree. Des aromes de pain et de miel qui se melent au houblon floral. En bouche c’est moyen, les saveurs sucrees ressortent beaucoup trops et ce malgre une belle amertume.

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
Beesbeer (349) - WALES - MAR 24, 2013
Quite nice. Bitterness, and a sort of lemon curd background flavour, some floral hops. Enjoyable but not stunning.

3.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 18/20
Grzesiek79 (2346) - Radom, POLAND - FEB 2, 2013
Dobre i o dziwo bardzo mętne piwo z Anglii, co się żadko zdaża. Zapach prawie niewyczuwalny. Smak słodowo goryczkowy. Finisz wytrawny i rozgrzewający.

1.9
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
zimbo (328) - SCOTLAND - JAN 20, 2013
Vile old fusty dusty nose. Pilsneresque to look at and a graininess and dryness too which hint at something appealing but the odour and ’taste’ just consumes everything. No.

3.9
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
Jetulio (47) - Tarragona.SPAIN, SPAIN - JAN 6, 2013
500 ml bottle poured into a Pint glass Appearance,... light yellow a little bit hazy, big head colour white very persistent Aroma. ... malty smell, wet grass too Taste.... little touch of citrus with a dry middle bitter end Mouthfeel... medium body with medium carbonation (a little high for an standard English ale in my opinion) Overall...... very refreshing, easy to drink but not so hoppy as you expect for an English bitter ale

2.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 12/20
Imaena (841) - Atlanta, Georgia, USA - JAN 3, 2013
Bottle. Perhaps I got a dodgy bottle. Find this stuff to be a bit underwhelming. Its got the pedigree of a great bitter but it failed to deliver.

3.3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
JohnCook101 (108) - - OCT 27, 2012
On draught. Pale golden with thin head. Light yeasty aroma. Low carbonation. Slight sweetness, then lots of yeast and a fairly long, moderately bitter finish with a late astringency. A very good session beer, I enjoyed this one.

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
Beersiveknown (1614) - NORTHERN IRELAND - OCT 24, 2012
grapey, dusty lemon, pale gold, dry metallic bitterness,medium carbonation, dry finish.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
NordicV (757) - Malmö, Sweden, SWEDEN - SEP 16, 2012
Gyllengul öl med vitt lätt skum. Doft av hö, örter med kryddighet. Smak av ljust bröd och en trevlig citrusaktig beska med viss pepprighet.


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