3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
1/2 at the Robin Hood Jarrow. Clear bright gold, white head. Straw and honey aroma. Quite a mellow honey and butterscotch flavour, without being at all cloying. Definitely a premium bitter. The finish is bitter enough, but not as astrigently bitter as an IPA, which means this a nicely balanced, moreish beer.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A - cloves with bubble gum
A - light and hazy with thick head
T - sweet and light spicy bitter
P - mid to thin and soft
O - nice Belgin style
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On cask at Cloisters. Pours a blonde colour with a fair white head. Aroma of hay and barley with lemon citrus notes. Similar flavours with a nice dry finish. OK.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at CP&K. It pours clear straw yellow, with a thin foamy white head and no carbonation. The nose is Weetabix, floral, white bread and mild cheddar cheese. The taste is straw, weak lemon, metal, hay, butter and white bread, with a light bitter finish. Bland and boring.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at Southampton Arms, London on 26th January 2011. Yellowy gold; thin, dying ring of foam. Sweetish aroma with berry fruits. Fruitiness and sweet caramel notes in-mouth and a rather sweet endtaste. Disappointing as an IPA.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
50cl bottle, pours gold with small lacy white head. Nose: gingery, hops, a little honey. Crisp dry palate, more ginger, buttery malt and grassy hops, a little pear in the background, finishes gently bitter and dry. Quite light bodied and refreshing.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask, Queen’s Head, Chelmsford
Aroma is grassy, floral hops, straw, sulphar. Appearance is clean copper-gold, off-white lacing, taste is grass, straw, honey, earthy notes, sweet malts, citric hop bite, easy to drink but very bland.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
30th June 2010. On tap at the Kings Head freehouse, Tollesbury Essex. Clear gold beer, not much of a head. Light palate. Appley nose. Sweet apples, a little pear and orange. Light finish. No real hop notes. Seems a bit green but tastes okay.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
cask at cloisters ... light amber .... thin white head ... zezty lemon ... dull fruit dish water lemon ... light bitter linger
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask, The Crown, Nuneaton. Notes make no mention of appearance: presumably an invisible beer. Faint piney orange hop aroma with antiseptic dabs. Slight gelatinous lemon, watery orange hop, disinfectant, mealy afters with wheat and apricot. OK, not IPA.
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