3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
[Cask at Troonfest] Aroma of toffee and sugared plums. Medium body, slight sweetness upfront, dry finish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottled, 500ml fro Stirchley Wines & Spirits, Birmingham. Amber with slight head. This appeared to be really flat to me. Thin malts, a touch piney, a touch metallic. Toffee with some liquorice note, sweet and fairly dull. Not great.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from The Scottish Real Ale Shop. Medium brown with a hint of orange, not much head. Grassy malt aroma. Roasted oaty caramel malt flavour. Quite smooth. A standard premium bitter.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle from Arden Wines. Wildly fizzing copper with a slim cream top. Yeasty, autumnal fruit on snout including plum, pear and strawberry, topped with custard. Eye-wateringly fizzy with Fruit Salad and overripe English apple notes; pear, strawberry. Some chaff and wholemeal in the finish. A touch of Belgian fruitiness, maybe. Narrowly the pick of a trio of almost interchangeable yeasty bitters from Mull.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Rehills in Newcastle. Copper coloured with a sweet malty, red fruity and chocolate flavour and a slight roasted finish.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
500 ml bottle. From the Scottish Real Ale Shop.
Clear amber colour with small off-white head.
Weak aroma of socks and mild malt.
Flavour is dry, mild liquorice, mild hops and malt.
Quite boring Bitter. Some sweetness in aftertaste.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Weetabix and toffee with raisins. Vimto with rye bread and plums. Yeast with lemon. Flavours are weetabix with nutty notes and mixed berry fruits. Malty with juicy fruit and a dry, peppery finish. Decent.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Tasted this in The Three Judges, Glasgow in November 2006. Cask, handpump dispense. Dark ruby in colour with a thick off white head. Sweet vinous fruit in the short aroma. Thin oily mouthfeel and good lacing. Dark malts give a maltloaf base with juicy fruit notes of raisins, sultanas and dark plum. Hardly any hops discernable in the very short aftertaste. Strong winegum like sweetness in the malty finish with juicy booming red wine notes in the mouth. A decent session ESB but maybe too sweet for some.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle 500ml, at the Oban Bay Brewery. Nice malty ale, with good hop support. Aromas of caramel, nuts, hints of apricot and butter. Taste is sweet, with mild bitterness, and very long length. Palate is velvety, and medium bodied. Amber, with a thin head.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled, from Scottish Real Ale Shop, Kilmahog. Clear nut brown, lively head. Spicy caramel aroma. Mid dry with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Plenty of caramel, slight notes of peat. Low bitterness.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 500ml.
[ Trade by cgarvieuk ]. Clear medium to dark red amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, dark berry - fruity, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dark berry, roasted, peat notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100813]
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