Marstons Sundance

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Tasted this in the Last Post, Paisley (JDW) in April 2000. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear pale amber in colour with a thin white head. Slight whif of citric lemon peel in the vanishing aroma. thin watery mouthfeel and poor lacing. Pale malts give a short digestive biscuit base with tart citric fruit notes of weak grapefruit and lemon. Dusty notes from the hop resins builds up in intensity to give a strong metallic ringing tone in the long aftertaste. Finish is too astringent with no body at all. A poor Golden Ale.

Cask at the Three Horseshoes, Morley, Derby - a Marstons house Clear gold with a creamy white head; easy to drink, light body, hoppy and slightly citrus. Plain and unexciting.

Bottle from Tesco (a while ago) Amber coloured reasonably pleasant hoppy bitter.

1. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich (JDW) 03/06/2002 Clear golden coloured with some sour fruit flavour. Full malt finish. 2. Bottle 05/04/2004 Amber coloured hoppy and slightly citrus flavour. Some dryness in a lasting malt finish.

Cask Conditioned at JDW Banbury. Golden beer with no head. Sweetly malted beer, with a juicyfruit background, like a cheap flavouring in sweets. Dty hoppy foreground saves the day. Average fare.

Bottled. Golden colour – barely carbonated. Mostly malt. Another average beer from the ridiculously long list of bottled ales that Marston’s produce.

Rather too flat looking beer, but its malty and hoppy freshness makes this beer worth trying.

Bottled version. Little aroma, faint malty flavour and a dry uneventful finish.