3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
From cask at Crystal Palace. Pours clear an golden orange with a small, dense creamy and tan head. Fruity and malty aroma. Solid breadish flavoured with a dry caramel malt base and a light bitterness shwoing through. Smooth malty and slight bitter finish.
3.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at ’Spoons, Milton Keynes in Wetherspoons BF ’08. Dark copper with a small white head. Slight malt aroma. Malty taste, smooth oily and rounded with a delicious graininess. Some bitterness. Good autumn ale. Better than Late Red!
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
<i>A Mes rate: cask at Baker Street ’Sporks.</i>
Dark copper colour with a thin white head. Good malt and hop balance in the aroma. Quite fruity with some good berry notes. Boarderline 7. The earthy malt flavour is very tasty topped with some pleasant citric hops. Good mineral notes and a few more berries in the finish. Nice and dry. Well balanced. Really quaffable.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull at Crosse Keys, London. The good side of acceptable. Deep attractive russet colour with thin beige head. Not bad, good deep malts, raspberry and sweet cherry. Its alright.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
cask at JDW edinburgh ... red brown ... no real nose .. light fruity malts ... bitter hop background... plain
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: DEC 9, 2008 Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms JDW, Bristol. Deep amber in colour with an off-white head. fruity malt and earthy hop aroma. Flavour was sweetish, with some caramel and juicy hops, before a decent bitter finish. Good.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tasted this in The Esquire House, Glasgow (JDW) in November 2008. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear tawny red in colour with a thin buff creamy head. Sweet chocolate and apple notes in the malty aroma. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Mixed malts give a maltloaf base with tart redcurrant fruit evident. Spruce notes present in the dry hop resins giving a dusty aftertaste. Finish is again dry with woody cask notes with berry fruit. A decent complex Old Ale and well recommended.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, The Highcross, Leicester. Dark copper with a dense cream head. Aromas are light weetabix malts with cream. Flavours are chocolate and weetabix malts with some lactose. Smooth and fairly sweet with a light bitter finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask in the cross keys and the new crown. Alround rating: A fairly standard innoffensive bitter, but lacking much exciting.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Hinckley Spoons. Deep ruby with a persistent white collar and lace. Cherry stone and red berry aroma. Caramel and marzipan stillness, berry fruit, too much alcohol showing. Vanilla and Custard Cream malty afters. Thin and tired, but just about OK.
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