2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20Cask conditioned at The Anchor, Digbeth, Birmingham. Gold with slight white head. Thin and pretty watery, i think the person who was meant to add the hops became idle on the day as there was not much flavour to this at all.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 9/20
4.2% gold colour with a good head, fruity malt aroma, refreshing bitter hoppy taste.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draught (Elm Tree, Cambridge)
Sweet mustard aroma. Gravy-like savoury taste - sage and onion stuffing. Flat. Past its prime from that clue, I’d say, but it’s only been on one day. Herbal finish. Taragon.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
27th August 2011
Gravicask at the Angel mini beer festival, Kelvedon. Hazy gold beer with a residual white head. Light semi dry palate. A little pale malt. Okay citrussy orange and lemon. Fresh. Finishes semi dry.
2.6 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Hand pulled cask at Sportsman at Croxley near Watford. Gold with a thin white head. Subtle wheat sourness and little hop flavour. Bland.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Handpull @ The Pembury. Clear gold, head scarpered quickly. Nose of sweet grainy malt, slight fruit and grass. Taste is much the same with a touch of hop bitterness in the swallow. Quite dull and boring.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A Mes rate: gravicask at the Bricklayers Arms.
Copper coloured with no head. Extreme pukey malt aroma that is really not good at all. Wheaty malt flavour with some faint fruit and a good dry bitter finish. Shame about the aroma as the rest is decent enough.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Bricklayers Arms Yorskhire Festival, 27th February 2009. Sweet aroma, biscuity malt taste. Balanced but rather average.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Gold. Hairy cardboardy malt aroma which later developed rather nice fruity notes, maybe baked apple sponge. Grainy malt taste with further cardboard and a brisk mid bitter finish. This beer grows on you after an uninspiring first impression. Try it again.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask, The Crown, Nuneaton. Disquieting cat biscuit aroma with a bleachy back note of piney hop. Dirty gold heaped with froth, squashy flat palate. Bizarre, hop-driven and homebrewish. Disinfectant, mucky malt , honey-gone-wrong. Drinkable. If you’re determined.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned - handpump - Wig & Pen, Northampton. A blonde coloured beer with a white head. The aroma is slightly citrus, but the taste is more so. Some sharp lemony hops and decent bitterness. OK.
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