3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (handpump) @ The 18th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2012, Reading, Berkshire England.
Clear medium yellow orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, moderate hoppy, citrus, orange - citrus, light mandarin. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, orange sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120503]
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines, Birmingham. Pours a beautiful yellow, with big foamy head. Smells pretty sharply grapefruity. Juicy mouthfeel, mmmmmm most pleasant. To me, yes this is hoppy (yes), but also it has a sharp edge of almost burnt, almost plastic notes to the big bitter hops. Mostly delicious, but does have that hard x-factor, and I’m not sure it’s meant to be like that - in any case it causes me to knock a few marks off. Sorry.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; pours straw yellow with slight haze, piney floral hop aroma has a decent level of hoppiness right amount of bitterness. I like this.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Gravicask (PBBF2012, Thurs)
7 Fruity C-hop aroma. Peachy, pineapple, a touch of mango
3 Gold, brief head.
7+ Fills the mouth with flavour. Lots of fruity hops again, but decent light malts too. Some citrus - grapefruit.
4 Nice bitter bite, even a nice throbbing tingle afterwards.
15- Very tasty - great balance. Excellent pale bitter.
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Golden ale. Much better than a golden shower, though Tommann does not agree. Delicious, hoppy, citrus... slightly overly bitter finish
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Jacks Westholme Stores, Goring-on Thames, Oxon consumed at Bromyard Folk Festival, Bromyard, Herefordshire Saturday 8th September 2012 Hazy gold with a large frothy white head. Hoppy, soft initially but then a crispness starts to show. Touch of pineapple cube, then a lazy citrus edge, good bitterness, enjoyable stuff. A7 A3 T7 P4 Ov15 3.5
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a cloudy straw colour with a fair amount of sediment in the bottle.
Initial burst of hop bitterness with a smooth grapefruit citrus finish.
Makes you want annother swig for the initial burst.
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
bottle from source deli ormskirk.
pale ale as it should be! a damn fine beer, lots of citrus and tropical fruit aromas from the hops, damn tasty too, ill have another!
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JUL 28, 2012 Cask @ CP&K. Golden yellow colour, good head. Resin, tropical fruit & biscuit aroma & flavour. Smooth with creamy citrus aftertaste. A really good golden ale.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask @ CPK, Light golden color with a big airy white head. The nose is of cut grass, lemon and grapefruit. Quite hoppy. The taste is much the same, light summery beer. A delicate body supporting fresh lemony hops, light pacific saltiness. Light, soft body. Good. Simple.
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