2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
First tasted this in the Bon Accord, Glasgow in December 1982. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear pale mahogany in colour with a thin creamy white head. Slightly sulphurous boiled egg note in the short aroma. Thin and weak mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a digestive biscuit note with tart redcurant fruit evident. Strong metallic tang of the hop resins gives a tartness to the aftertaste. Metallic notes prevades into the weak malty finish and tastes much weaker than ABV would suggest. Is this really a mild though? Not one of my favourites from the Marstons portfolio.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Bridge, Kingswinford. Pours a dark ruby brown with a medium head. Aroma is slightly sour dark fruit malt. Taste is a bit watery to start. Has some of the dark fruit malt on the finish.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask at Market Porter, London. Amber beer, small head. Fruity aroma, some roasted notes, some hops. Hoppy fruity flavor. A bit dull.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask conditioned handpump Malt Shovel Northampton. A chestnut coloured beer with an off-white ring of head. A very ordinary beer with a faint fruity nose. Weird bitterness in the mouth with a touch of caramel. Really unbalanced and quite poor.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Brown with white soapy head. Smooth malty beer with an underlying sweetness. Not much character. A little uninteresting.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask in the Waters Green Tavern, Macclesfield. Medium brown with thick off white / pale brown head, good lace. Not much aroma at all, little fruit packed in a carrier bag with a pair of those crap black pumps they used to wear in the 80’s at school. Probably still do. Bit of caramel, bitter finish. Not great.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A Mes rate. Cask handpull at Baker Street ‘Sporks.
Mid brown colour with a thin light beige head. Faintly eggy aroma with very little else happening. The flavour is all apple and bread with a hit of caramel malt. Who woulda thunk it? Substandard? Marstons? Never.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask-conditioned at the Crosse Keys (JDW), London 09/06/09. Slightly hazy amber in colour with a moderate, off-white head. Burnt toffee dominated this one, at the exclusion of all else except some dodgy sulphur and a hint of spicy hops in the finish. The first pint in a long time that I couldn’t finish. Poor.
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