3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 500ml. @ ChrisOs.
Clear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, apple. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, caramel, malty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20101204]
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask@Southampton Arms, London. Amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet caramel malts with some slight crystal notes as well as some floral and mildly nutty notes. Flavour is slightly nutty with quite big caramel and crystal maltyness. Also has some nice bitter floral and grassy notes to it.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
cask at haymarket ... copper ... sweet toffee malts nose...light malt roast little apple ... barest tartness
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Gravity cask, Old Ale House, Truro. Fairly coppery colour. No head. Spicy, caramelly character. Fruity-spicy. Soft body with some caramelized sugars late.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
11th September 2009
Cask at Chapel Beer Festival. Slightly hazy gold beer. Smells a little sulphurous. Light crisp palate. Some sulphur but it’s overwhelmed by sherbetty lemon and pineapple fruits. Finishes crisp and dry. Good - could have been great without the bad eggs!
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Stillage at the Boundary, Audenshaw 15/06/2002
Golden amber coloured with a floral aroma. Slightly dry smooth full hop finish.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from a Costcutter in Penzance. Pours dark copper with a transient off-white head. Aromas of roasted malt and sweetish fruit. Med body. Flavor is floral and sweet light fruit over mildly roasted caramel. Balanced, so not all that bitter, but more bitter than not.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at Far from the Madding Crowd, Oxford. Gold with white head. Full bodied beer with a grainy, mashy hint in the body with a touch of dishcloth. It develops though in to a full fruity, grapey beer with plenty of depth, good long finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pale amber with greenish shine, hazy; good medium-sized head, yellowish. ??? What is it with this brace of Britbeers I got? This smells pure horseblanket! BBD is about 5 months past, true. Shortlived, however, turning woody and especially grassy. Bitter taste, very good British hops-bitter; nice & refreshing. There’s some little malty sweetness underneath, and a fruity flavour, turning it into a hopped banana-orange drink - but then one I like. Light MF, but refreshing, nice fresh hopbite. Pleasing beer, bit Weizen character. I’m starting to warm to Keltek brewery, even if I dread revisiting Blue Anchor...
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle drunk on 4 December 2010. Amber colour. Clear. Good condition. More malty than hoppy on the nose. Decent balance on the palate. Strong late bitterness. Rather traditional in style. Pretty decent though. Seems to have translated to bottle quite well - something that can’t always be said for British bitters.
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