1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 4/20
Dark golden with a short head. Sugars and grass in the scent. Lots of sugars in the mouth, with a malty taste and not much bitterness. Sulphuric aftertaste, indicating it might not have been in a good state.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
15th February 2008
An extraodinary bitter! Light and clear and with an intense sweet malt and grapefruit followed by sweet peach and raspberry (peach melba!) notes. Very moorish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
<i>Cask Conditioned at Market Porter, London, 4% ABV</i>
Muddy deep blond color. Light aroma, earthy, light manure. Malty flavor, with a light grainy touch, some pleasant sweetness, light cookies, correct bitterness, quite good hopping. Good.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask in the market porter. Alround rating: Popcorn, buttery sweet, very unusal beer indeed. I dont quite get whats going on here.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Clearish light orange body is covered by a fading off-white head. Not so aromatic this one, but well placed ingredients including firm malts with just balancing floral and leafy hops. Highly drinkable, faultless, but perhaps a bit too straightforward and unexciting.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask Handpump at the Ale Wagon, Leicester 19/03/2005
Golden colour hoppy and slightly sweet honey flavour. Crisp slightly bitter full malt finish.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Amber colour. Too much butterscotch in the aroma for my liking, but it’s not too intrusive in the flavour, which is dry, slightly citric and reasonably fresh. Not bad, but I didn’t think it packed a lot of punch for a strong bitter. Cask (handpump), Ale wagon, Leicester (RB Leicester pub crawl).
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Ale Wagon, Leicester, RB Crawl 2005. Ready for the echo? Caramel; in the nose, on the lips. Rough malts to start with, sweet notes to play with; a good chewy mouthful.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Hand pulled at the Ale Wagon, Leicester (RB crawl). Oh dear, the first pub of the day and already the notes are going awry. All I have written down for this one is: butterscotch start then fiery dryness. I think because Chris_o was going on about his loathing for butterscotch, I may have got sidetracked... My short summary then is that this beer’s thin and fairly boring.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Conditioned and on hand Pump at The Ale Wagon in Leicester. On 22nd Jan 05 during the Rate Beer Leicester meet/crawl. No sparkler.
Mid coppery Brown colour.
very caramelly in both aroma & taste. A light & fresh bitter. Very nice, but a tad over powering to drink much of.
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