2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20Ascot Beer Festival 2012. Pours a tawny brown colour, aroma is malty with hints of fruit and some toffee, taste is bitter with malt and hops.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Old Gaol House (JDW), Winchester. Reddish amber with scummy cream coloured head; aroma of purple fruits; which carry through to the mouth, with a grainy body; then a light bitterness and a doughy finish. Not really anything special about this, but it’s a perfectly drinkable bitter.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask @ Volunteer Arms, GBBF 2011. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
cask at goalhouse jdw ... copper ... thin white head ... soft fruity metallic nose ... sweet toffee fruits ...light summer fruits ... light metalic linger ... hint of soapyness
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (Guide Dog, Southampton) - Copper coloured. Malty and fruity aroma with hints of caramel and raisins. Fruity and slightly hoppy taste with dried fruit and toffee.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at the Phoenix, Southsea, PO5, England on 16th October 2009. Crystal clear amber with off-white foam soon diminishing to a shallow ring. Malty with undertones of caramel through which pokes a grapefruit-citric hop note. Finish is sweet with notes of caramel/toffee on a smooth mouthfeel. Well kept by the pub.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask gravity at SIBA BF, Paddock Wood. Very attractive amber, lasting off white head. Very good conidtion. Nice best bitter, good balance of yeast malt and hop. Little bit of ginger. Really nice fruit. Rather a good bitter.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A Mes rate: cask at the Hop Farm festival.
Awesome golden brown colour with a thin white head and in excellent condition. A lovely peaty malt aroma with some balancing pineapple sweetness with some good biscuity notes too. Similar flavour with a superb balance of pineapple sweetness and grapefruit bitterness. The green hoppage in the finish is not really my thing but it really doesn’t spoil it. The faint citric sourness is lovely. Straight forward English stuff but drinkable as hell and very enjoyable.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask at Glenrothes BF 08. Nose is warm sweet malts, some sweet orange. Mouth is fruity and lemony, then malty, very watery. Exceedingly dull.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask conditinoed @ Guide Dog, Soton. Copper. Slightly thin with a little off yeastiness. A light fairly bland bitter apart from that. Not a great start for the brewer.
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