3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Small creamy offwhite head. Slightly hazy amber body. Faint milky caramelly aroma with spicy wooden notes. Dry-sweetish milky grainy caramelly taste with spicy notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft mouthfeel. Dryish wooden strawy caramel aftertaste with rye crisp bread and spice notes. Nice, lovely vividness to the straw/grain taste. Highly drinkable, too. (0.25l cask, The Speaker, Westminster, London.)
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Handpump at The Shoulder of Mutton, Wantage, Oxon 15.04.11 with Peter (ex Pitstop brewer) and owner of this new pub Pours dark amber with a white head, in fact this looks marvellous. As the description states this has quite an old fashioned taste about this however its very flavoursome in a very earthy and rustic way. I enjoyed this very much. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (handpump) @ Nags Head, 5 Russell Street, Reading, Berkshire, England RG1 7XD.
Clear medium to dark amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light light heavy malty, caramel, nutty, dusty malt, dried fruit, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100428]
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
UPDATED: APR 29, 2010 Cask handpull, The Pub, Leicester. Still red gold with a thin white head. Bit of a butter bomb I’m afraid; decent floury biscuit, big bittering hop, cherry hints and toffee popcorn to compensate. Yeasty blackberry/apple aroma. Good beer gone wrong? Poor old George isn’t very gorgeous I’m afraid. Butter+astringency is not a good combo.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned handpump The Pub Leicester. An amber coloured beer with a loose white bubbly head. There is diaectyl in the nose, which carries through slightly to the mouth where there are tea and earthy notes. Some nice bready malts. A low hop bill (but it is F&G) although in spite of that and the diacetyl hint, there are some nice flavours.
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