3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Gravicask (PBBF2012, Wednesday)
7 Nice fruity hop aroma - peach and nectarine.
3 Bright gold, tiny head.
6 Nice hoppy blond, buit grapefruity hops. But dishwatery.
4 Refreshing palate. A great bitter bite.
12 Goes downhill a bit after the aroma. But an OK blond.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Rehills in Newcastle. Hazy pale golden in colour with sharp citrus and grapefruit flavours with a sweet floral and bitter finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle@Home. Citrus hoppy aroma. Pale yellow, white head, good lace. Very bitter, grapefruit, grassy. Very dry and refreshing.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle picked up from Jacks, Westholme Stores, Goring on Thames, Oxon 13.12.11 consumed with dad 14th Dec 2011 Pours light lemony gold with a large white head. Lightly fruity aroma, tiny bit soapy. The taste is lemony with a nice bitterness again, little soapy hoppiness at times, but a good bitter beer and marked improvement on the previous two offerings from Nutbrook. A6 A3 T7 P4 Ov13 3.3
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ Craft Beer Co., London. Clear yellow / light golden color, no head. Smell almost nothing, just slightly bitter and malts. Taste malts, light bitterness, slightly hops. Very low carbonation and body.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask handpull at Craft Beer Co. Pale clear gold lasting white head. Very floral hoppy golden beer. Very hoppy with some ok bitterness on finish. Elderflower? I am guessing elderflower in this. Good condition. Tasty though.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Craft Beer Co, London on 5th October 2011. Pale gold with thin white head and lacing all the way down. Yeast, hop and honey in aroma. In-mouth is quite citric with grapefruit and lemon notes. Citric end with a little grassiness. Chalkiness slightly clouds an otherwise clean light texture.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
30th September 2011
On tap at Craft Beer. Clear gold beer, little white head. Light fresh palate, semi dry. Fine carbonation. Zingy grapefruit with bitter pine and a trace of peach. Fair amount of bitterness in the semi dry finish. Not bad.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at CBC, London. Pours clear, yellow-gold with a white head. Grain and straw aroma. Medium sweet flavor with delicate, straw and hay bitters, some cereal grain sugar. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, dry straw, mild sweetness.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
A Sim rate (cask at the Craft): This beer tastes just like the shandies my grandad used to make us as kids - back when it felt naughty to drink even a minute amount of alcohol. He used to shop at this place called "Ed" (a bit like the present-day Lidl) which everyone in the town annoyingly referred to as "Ed’s". Everything was cheap and random. He bought bitter one case at a time, served in a plain, generic can. To make the shandy, "Ed" lemonade was used, comparable to the one you can find in the Tesco value range. So yes, that is this beer.
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