Mallinsons Nelson Sauvin

Brewed by Mallinsons
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Huddersfield, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask at Stourbridge Beer Festival; clear amber pour with soapy white head, fruity aroma, grapefruit taste some citrus fruits, bready malts, excellent low ABV golden.

Cask at The Anchor, Digbeth, Birmingham. Poured a hazy light amber with a bubbly white broken head and lots of lace. The aroma is surprisingly rather fruity. The flavour is medium bitter, hoppy and a little spicy, but rather smooth on the palate with lots of citrus fruits. The bitterness does stay around for a while in the aftertaste. A super session beer.

50cl bottle from Westholme Stores, Goring. The initial pour resembles a good pilsner, pale straw with a loose white head; but the sweet grapefruit aroma immediately proves that this is not the case; in the mouth there’s an explosion of tart, fruity, grapefruit with a grainy body; and a sharp, zesty, citrus note that carrys through into a gloriously bitter finish. This is absolutely splendid stuff - why can’t every low strength golden ale taste this good?

Bottle from Jacks, Westholme Stores, Goring-on-Thames, Oxon, consumed at home, Thursday 20th September 2012 Pours light gold with slim white head, fresh grapefruit nose, slight haze. Buzzy tingle on the tongue, refreshing and tasty, pithy, great beer. Tart, tangy refreshing grapefruit, lovely, lovely beer. A8 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 4.0

botle at home ... golden amber ... thin white head ... soft floral orange ... light zezt nose... dry orange and passsion fruit ... little passion fruit in linger

Cask at the Euston Tap, London. Pours clear yellow with a sturdy, white foam head. Lots of grainy, toasty-grassy hops in the nose, some toasty bread, some very mild citrus notes. Light to medium sweet, some toast, grain, lots of bitter earth, dirt and grass, a bit of orange rind. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Gritty bitter finish, faintly abrasive with dirt, heavy grass, earth, very faint tangy lemon. A characterful beer, but just a touch too aggressive in terms of the bitterness.

500ml bottle at 3.9%. Pours light gold with a large head. Aroma is subtle, lime and mango. Taste has a little lime to start with a very bitter, earthy finish.

Bottle. Hazy gold with a pillow of white foam. Aromas are biscuit malts with fresh grassy notes and light grapefruit. Creamy oak and hints of pine with marmalade. Flavours are bittersweet grapefruit and oranges with dry woodiness. Biscuit malts with prickly nettle. Grassy, crisp and addictive with spritzy yeast. Has a long bitter finish. Really nice.

Cask gravity @ Battersea BF 2012. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity peppery hoppy citrus aroma. Fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty peppery hoppy citrus finish.

Cask gravity, Derby Winter BF, 17/02/12. Pale and pretty much headless. Resinous pine and lemon aroma. Dry and stinging with grapefruit IBUs over a rock solid, pale husky base. Rich tea in stewed Darjeeling afters. Not what I was expecting from Nelson.