3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Elm Tree, Cambridge. Pours clear gold with a creamy, off-white foam head. Lightly toasted, bready malts in the nose. Light sweet flavor with dry leaves, toasty sugars, dry bread, faint toffee. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Moderately sweet finish with toasted bread, light sticky toasted sugars, bitter leaves, faint dry caramel. Basic.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Old Gaolhouse (JDW), Winchester. Reddish amber with a tight cream head; sweet, fruity, caramel, aroma; soft caramel flavour with a hint of spice; and some gentle grassy bitterness before a dry finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Hand pulled at The Dog, Harvington, Worcs. Standard dark brown bitter with no remarkable features. Slight malt but lacking flavour, like so many seasonal ales.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 9/20
Clear copper coloured bitter with a frothy head. Crisp for a winter beer but with little flavour. Has a small maltiness in its nose.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Station Hotel, Hither Green. Pours burnt orange with a white head. Citrus and light malt aroma. Bitter citrus flavour. Long bitter finish. Average stuff.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Bridge, Kingswinford. Pours dark brown with a medium head. Aroma is brown bread with a little spice. Taste has a little warm spice to start with brown bread and cardboard on the finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Brown with reddish hue and off white head. There is quite a metallic note to this, the malt is darkly roasted but heavily, slight boiled vegetable a hint of boiled rice. Some bitterness late on and clean enough on the palate, but just on the ok side.
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