2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
[Cask at the Falcon, High Wycombe] Light amber with a moderate white head. Mild creamy caramel is the order of the day here. There’s a light floral hint in the finish, but really it’s pretty bland and disappointing from a brewery that’s normally reasoanably decent.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Clear light to medium orange color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, dusty, moderate yeasty, horse, butter. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (010508)
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Malty, caramel and toffe, im on glue?, Though reaonabl drinkable, wheres the hops?
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at GBBF 2006. An orange beer with a rim of beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of caramel, and lesser notes of alcohol and fruit. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel, leading to a dry bitter end with notes of toffee.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at The Monks’ Retreat (JDW), Reading. Golden with a white head; crisp and refreshing with a grapefruit flavour and some honey; a refreshing bitter aftertaste with more grapefruit. Excellent.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense), Reading Beer Festival, April 2006. Attractive bright orange colour - a bit dark for a golden ale. Otherwise, its crisp, fresh and fruity, with plenty of zesty hop character. Rather more aromatic than I expected from Challenger hops. Very pleasant.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich (JDW) 05/06/2006
Slightly floral aroma. Golden coloured and hoppy with some banana fruit flavour. Some dryness and creaminess in a bitter lasting finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Reading BF. A peach/ornage coloured beer. The aroma has good hops with orange flavours. The taste is also nice orange fruit hops. A decent drink.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Conditioned at Reading BF. Amber coloured. Juicy and fruity aroma. Hoppy and bitter well balanced by a good malt character. Another really good beer from the brewery.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: NOV 15, 2006 Nov 06 Takeaway from Gravity cask @ Bitter Virtue, Soton. Juicy fruity nose, very inviting. Gold malt to balance moderate bitterness of the hops. Not quite as drinkable today but a better array of flavours. 3.6
Apr 06 Gravity cask @ Reading Beer Festival 2006. Good hop malt balance. Some toffee and not quite citric hops. Tasty with trademark Loddon sweet toffee but still light malt but didnt excite as some have done. 3.4
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