Mallinsons Wild Butterfly

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.

Clear medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, pale malt, malt dusty, elderflowers notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, hop oil bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110428]

Cask (gravity dispense) at Reading Beer Festival on 28 April 2011. Straw coloured. Another pale, hoppy number from Mallinsons, and well up to standard. Not sure what the hops are but this one seemed slightly more citrus oriented - more lemon than grapefruit here - than the Mallinsons Simcoe which I drunk alongside it. Plenty of bite on the finish - perhaps more tart than bitter. Very refreshing. I marginally preferred the Simcoe, which had more layers of flavour, though.