3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at The Ship Inn, Keynsham, Somerset. Dry and honeyed beer, reasonably fully flavoured with a perfumed honey note. Bitter, malty and fresh then a late sweetness.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@The Cock and Bull, St Peter Port, Guernsey
Clear golden color, small white head. A bit honeyish flowery hoppy nose. Flavor is flowery and woody, a bit harsh hoppyness in the finish. Lingering fruityness in the aftertaste.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned handpump Racehorse Northampton. A golden beer with a whitish head and lacing. An inoffensive beer whose honey is never overpowering. In fact it’s pretty clean and drinkable. A tad dull but it could have been nasty.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Giddy Bridge JDW, Southampton) - Golden in colour. Malty aroma with hints of grain and honey. The taste is refreshing, but a bit bland with notes of honey, grain and some fruity hints.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading. Amber with a dense white head; crisp grainy aroma; sharp citrus flavour; lightly bitter finish. A pleasant pint, but no sign of any honey.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Oxfford, Macclesfield while watching United win. Slowly settle to gold with thick bright white head. Looked like it had had some new and improved Daz, a whiter white than usual. A decent amount of honey in, certainly detectable in the aroma but not too much in the flavour. Usual malts and hops, honey, fairly standard stuff. Dry finish. He he he Cockermouth...
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, The Lamplighters, St Hellier, Jersey. Hazy gold with a small head. Aromas are light sweet malts with floral notes and peppery, grapefruit bitterness. Flavours are lightly sweet with dry and grapefruit pith bitterness. Decent.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (handpump) @ The Plough Inn, WA2, Houghton Green. Clear light amber color with a small virtually none white head. Aroma is moderate malty and hoppy, butter honey. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texute is creamy, carbonation is flat.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bon Accord. Aroma is noteable honey character, not over powring however. Taste is nicely balancd, hints of citrus acidic sick, hpowver not in a bad was on the finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: NOV 3, 2009 1. Cask Handpump at the Exeter Arms, Derby 27/07/2007
Some carbonation. Small white head. Citrus hop aroma. Clear golden coloured hoppy and fruity with a crisp and dry bitter malt finish.
2. Cask Handpump at the Bulls Head, Manchester 06/06/2009
Hop aroma. Small white head. Golden coloured fruity and a little rich and creamy on the palate. Crisp and slightly dry malt finish.
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