3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.
Clear medium red amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light light heavy malty, caramel, fruity candy caramel. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110430]
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Gravity dispense at Ascot Racecourse Beer Festival 2012 - 06/10/12.
Clear chestnut brown with a thin off white head that soon bids a farewell!
Caramel malt, toffee, subtle hints of mango and a little tropical fruit on the nose.
Tastes of toffee, dark caramelised sugar, a little malt and some woodiness.
Medium bodied leading to a bitter dry finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Copper colour, with mediumsized foamy off-white head. Aroma is sweet caramel and crystal malty with some mild nutty notes. Also some slight ripe fruits and mild grassyness. Flavour is rather similar with a nice bitter finish.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Hobgoblin. Pours clear deep amber with a small bubbly off white head. Aroma is fruity, malty, a bit sweet and hoppy. Flavor is nicely malty, caramel, fruity and bitter hoppy. Finishes bitter.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
On gravity at Swindon beer festival 27/10/2011. Deep gold with a slight, off-white head. Sweetish cereal malt aroma with a pinch of grassy hops. Flavour had more, slightly bready malts with a decent, bitter finish. So-so.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Library, Oxford) - Copper coloured. Papaya, passion fruit and toffee in the aroma. The taste is fruity and slightly tart with notes of passion fruit, dried fruit and toffee.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at Far From the Madding Crowd, Oxford. Amber with white head. Quite a regular Best Bitter type beer, light on the palate, reasonable bitterness, easy on the constitution, decent enough.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A very pleasant, very drinkable and very smooth beer. Best available in the area close to the brewer. Available in most pubs in the Abingdon area. Well worth a try.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, gravity, Wantage Beer Festival 19.11.10 Amber in colour without any head, save for a few stray bubbles dossing about like a couple of bored kids kicking a football in the street. Some streaky citrus, quite a bitter beer, biscuity maltiness good bitter bite. There is some tanginess, a dollop of fruit at the end, its nice. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Stillage at the Assembly Rooms, Tamworth 11/09/2010
Malt aroma. Amber a little rich and smooth on the palate with a hint of bitterness in a dry malt finish.
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