3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Big head upon pouring.Some hops and a bitter presence that doesn’t dominate. Amazing amount of body for a 3.9-had to check the label to confirm the strength. Yet another impressive bottle from a micro. The standard has improved so much-long may it continue.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull (as ’Bridge 61’), Bridge 61, Foxton Locks, Leics. Dusky amber, slim mushroom head. Clean hop, malt and mineral aroma; hints of orange, grass, biscuit and caramel. Soft and honeyed with cherry, lemon and aniseed hints. Cashew finish. Tasty.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, handpump at The Nut Tree, Murcott, Oxon 10-01-10 Pours light amber with white head. Easy drinking beer that lacks in both bitterness and also flavour, its not a bad beer by any stretch it’s just a touch thin and insubstantial. A6 A3 F6 P3 Ov12 3.0
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at Cambridge Blue, Cambridge. Amber with a small white head. Sweet spicy aroma, perhaps lychee. Malty taste with slight sourness and dustiness. Some bitterness. Unusual and interesting.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, Bridge 61, Foxton. Golden with a white head. Aromas are caramel and biscuit malts with some grain. Flavours are sweet caramel with light lemon and apricot. Some sulphur. A decent quaffer.
Earlier Rating: 5/6/2005 Total Score: 3
Cask, Leicester Beer Fest 05. Light amber/gold with white foam. Aromas are caramel and biscuit with fruit and some sulphur. Flavours are biscuit, with pear fruitiness. Has smooth caramel. Surpringly tasty for a session ale.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle. Pours light amber with a medium, frothy, off-white head. Very drinkable but not much to get excited over. Hoppy aroma with a sweeter-than-expected, hay flavour.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned - handpump - Black Horse Walcote. A golden coloured beer with an off-white head. The aroma is on the malty side. Some straw in the light and easy taste. Very much a session bitter which goes down very easily.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Stillage at the Swan Inn, Stone 20/07/2001
Golden coloured with some sour fruit flavour. Pale with a hop finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@Leicester Beer Festival. Very light looking beer with a very light aroma and a good pale beer and slightly watery hopped flavour. Overall an OK beer.
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