3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20Bottle from Booth’s, Ilkley, drank round Sas’ on Easter Sunday. Clear copper with slim cream foam. Caramel on slate with a rub of walnut aroma, hint of malt loaf. Soft bodied with typical Yorkshire stoniness and bittering hop bite; some caramel and cinder toffee, dust of chocolate. Solid.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, Booths, Penrith. Reasonably powerful hop aroma, the spicy bitterness is immediately apparent on the tongue and back of throat and is the dominating character of the beer. Slight smokiness towards the finish, very much an English brown bitter, but with much more character than a lot of its peers. Enjoyable.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Chestnut gold. Thinnish off white foam. Caramel, spice, a little ash and some citrus on the nose. Citric pang on the tongue, without really being fruity. Mostly caramellic tastes, with some spruce resins. Finish is bitter, but again really lacks any particular taste... just bitter. Decent for a session, I guess.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle. Caramel malt predominates. Copper colour, subsiding head. Aftertaste rather harsh. Overall: rather unbalanced.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Tomlinsons Beer Shop, Inverness 081212
Amber, clear, frothy white head, good lacing
Aroma - light spicy hops, some soft fruity caramel malt, very light aroma
Taste - caramel malts, soft spicy hops, soft earthy hop, tea, touch of dark fruits
Palate - soft carb, light to medium body. Finish is considerably dry, some earthy hop bitterness
Overall - Better than your average bitter beer - quite decent
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask by handpump at Three Judges, Glasgow - clear amber, bubbly white head, minimal aroma, caramel, bit of resin, slightly bitter aftertaste
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask in Craft Beer Co. . Clear brown white head. Nose is butterscotch, floral, tea, grain husk. Taste is toffee, tea, floral, roast grain, hoppy grapefruit. Light carbonation.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle - ruby red body, thin white head, heavy hoppy nose. A massive kick of hops, then a mouthful of sourness. Long aftertaste with a medium body, not bad.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle, from Asda Scunthorpe. Golden brown, thin but lasting white head and gentle condition. Delicate toffee, banana and earthy hops in the nose, dry in the mouth but full flavoured, some earthy hops fight with a fruitiness and a trace phenolic note, slightly bitter finish with lingering earthy herbal hops.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Reddish brown beer with a reasonable head. The aroma is toffee and hopped, and the flavour is fairly strongly bitter with a hopped, toffee and yeasty finish. Overall a pretty average bitter.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
2nd December 2009
Pigs Ear. As ’Olicana Best’. Hazy brown beer. Light dry palate. Good malt base with a little unsweet toffee. The hops are aggressive for an English bitter. Grassy grapefruit. Finishes semi dry. Not bad - got some welly!
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