Marstons Single Hop Wai-Iti

Brewed by Marstons (Marstons plc)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Burton-on-Trent, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask, Agricultural Hotel, Penrith. Given some of the NZ hopped beers that are around, this is a real let-down. As if Marstons have thought they’d better join the trend, but not spend too much doing it. It’s a bit sweet and cloying, thin and lacking in the taste department. None of the ’intense citrus and sweet fruit character’ that we know these hops can give a beer. Either do it properly or don’t bother....

Cask gravity @ Bree Louise, Euston NW1. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity grainy grassy hoppy aroma. Fruity malty grassy hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty grassy hoppy finish.

Cask (Maypole, Cambridge)
Nice gentle fruity hop aroma, quite close to its NZ hop neighbours. Pale, small head. Taste is a letdown. It’s quite incipid and a bit chalky, and has none of the bite the aroma promised. Messy to bland.

Cask at the Bridge, Kingswinford. Pours gold with a large head. Aroma is dirty lime. Taste has an earthy start with some lime in a medium bitter finish.