Marstons Old Empire (Cask)

Cask @ The Warf, Aalborg. Pours amber with a thin head.Malty and citrusy hops in the nose.Flavor is bread and grains,estery fruitiness with a nice bitter finish.Medium body and soft carbonation.

Cask @ Charlies, Cph.
Pours clear amber with no head. Sweet caramel aroma, light maltiness, but generally rather weak. Low carbonation, fine oily mouthfeel. Flavour is heavy sweet, lots of caramel, light sugar. The finish just about saves it with quite dry hoppiness.

Cask, Hinckley Fest 09. Amber with a thin head. Aromas are toffee malts with some Autumn fruit. Woody and floral with some light medicinal qualities. Flavours are sweet malts with dry woody notes. Slightly "chewy" with a dry hoppy finish. Decent.

Cask@2nd Hinckley Beer Festival, 2009. Bronze beer with a mildly toffee aroma and a lightly hopped flavour. Overall a nicely malty and gently hopped beer.

Cask - JDW, Canterbury. Mildly hazy amber with a fine white head. Red berries, caramel and apple on the nose. Toffee and apple flavours with a touch of alcohol in the otherwise grassy hop finish. Medium body, slightly carbonated mouthfeel and a lasting dry grassy bitterness.

Tinned peaches on the nose, blunt bitter palate without hop flavours, more tinned peaches on the palate....was hoping for more from this because in the bottle i think this was my first introduction to the world of hops!

rbesg07, cask at the standing order, edinburgh. goolden with a modest white head, nutty, toffeed aroma, decent butterscotch character with a gentle grassy finish

[cask at Monks Retreat, Reading] Amber, slight white head, slight carbonation. Dry spicy bitterness up front, followed by some straw and a light and sweet fruitiness - orange and peach?. Some wood comes through in the tail, with a dry finish. Recognisable Marstons flavour, but - surprisingly - this is a decent beer, and I enjoyed it more than I normally would for something this dry and bitter.