2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask Handpump at Wetherspoons, Manchester 15/05/2009
Slight floral aroma. Beige head. Mid brown coloured smooth on the palate and fruity with a little dryness in a crisp full malt finish.
2 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Handpulled cask at JDW Harrow. Dull brown with a thin off white head. Malty with a musty drab dryness. Little hops to speak of. YAAWWNN!
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (gravity) @ The Bankers Draft, 1–3 Market Place, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England S1 2GH.
Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity sweet, roasted notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090419]
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Oadby. Dark brown with red tints and a dense beige foam. Aromas are light malts with some fruitiness. Traces of chocolate. Flavours are smooth, light malts with some light coffee. Not much going on. Boring.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask handpull at Willow Walk Spoons, Victoria. Deepish brown colour, thin beige head. It’s a slightly low flavoured bitter, nothing wrong with it, just no real flavour or hop.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
The Figure of Eight (JDW), Broad St, Brum. Still ruby with a squirt of Gillette. Slightly beefy cask aroma. Mushy choc and caramel malts, bit of chestnut, mild-like caramel slickness, slight dankness. Inoffensive- if it was labelled a mild we probably wouldn’t be so scathing. Pretty close to the cask version of the standard bitter. Finishable.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask in the new crown and alfread herring. Alround rating: Fruity nuttyness off the malts, brawn ale malts are key, theres a decent amoutn of sulphury mineral content in here too. Not really my deal.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at the Monks Retreat (JDW), Reading. Dark amber with a dense creamy head; grainy aroma; creamy texture with sweet, slightly sour, malts and some toffee; dry finish. Very mediocre, surely they could do better than this, it’s not even a good copy of their usual keg cr*p.
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