3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Pigs Ear BF. An amber coloured beer with a decent off-white coloured head. The aroma is malty with biscuits and crackers to the fore. This is replicated in the crunchy taste. Bready flavours also. Very nice.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
BCA (from Bitter Virtue, BB Aug 07). Good balance between strawy hops and clean but falvoursome biscuity bready malts. Very drinkable and definitely one I’ll try on cask when I see it. Suprisingly well bottled for a new brewer and with improved quality compared to the beers I tried shortly after they had opened.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Cask at Wenlock Arms, London, 31 July) Colour is dark amber with frothu head. Nose is malty and nutty with notes of dried fruit (prunes). Taste is malty, nutty with notes of dried fruit (arpicots, prunes) and a long bitter finish with a well balanced hoppy character. Nothing fancy, but very nice.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Cask at Black Door, Helsinki) Poured amber and clear. Head was medium sized, quite quickly disappearing and white. Aroma contained molasses and malts. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were molasses, mild roastedness, nuts, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste contained molassses and bitterness.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Pullman, Helsinki)
Orangy, thin head. Sharp slightly fruity and sour and nutty malty aroma. Mild carbonation. Taste is also sharp, and powerfully malty - raw and sour mashy. Also got hints of nuttiness and even some ginger. Pukka Best, back to the style of the 80s or before. Tasty and refreshing.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: MAR 1, 2007 Cask at Royal Oak, Fritham, Hampshire. Deep brownish amber. Resiny hoppy nose. Medium dry with clean, rounded mouthfeel and light-medium body. Salty and lightly soapy with long heavily salty bitterish finish. A solid bitter.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Think this is the very beer that they have bottled.Poured very flat and slightly cloudy.Traces of smokiness and some hops. The bitterness lingered for some while.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A Mes rate:
Gravicask @ Reading Beer Festival. Dark golden colour, almost amber. Surprising roasted malt nose. Tarty malt flavour that is not particularly refined. Could have been much better.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: JAN 29, 2012
Cask @ Salhojankadun Pub
Aroma is fruity with bready malt and hints of hay. Flavour has some fruity hops with flowery notes and bready malt. Rather fruity but otherwise quite typical real ale.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ Salhojankadun Pub, Tampere.
Pours a copper colour without a head. Aroma of toasted malts, grass and hay. Light flavour of toasted malts, floral hops, nuts and dried fruits. Light bodied, slick mouthfeel and a malty, light fruity finish. Your average bitter.
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