3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask gravity at Crabble Corn Mill BF 2007. Chestnut with disappearing white head. Toffee/coffeeish best bitter. Darkish malts followed by decent fruity citrus finish, including blood oranges. Maybe a bit sweet and cloying, bit of tea flavour. Finish is ok, but too sweet in the mouth for me.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW. Pours clear, brown-gold with a filmy, foamy head. Woody malts on the nose, hints of nuts. Flavor at first is marked by a nuttiness, also notes of dark sawdust, faint sugar, and kindling. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Bland finish, some faint malts faintly toasted, some nuts, weak honey. Average or slightly below.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Southampton Beer Festival.
Tawny, some head, clear. Fruity aroma
with some orange. Some orange in the taste. Some more maltiness would
be apropriate. Nice citric aftertaste.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Conditioned at Harbury Beer Festival ’05. Reddish amber beer, turgid cloudy. Flat and a little on the muddy side but saved by a reasonable dry fruitiness. Struggling for condition, there is a reasonable beer in there somewhere.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@Dartford BF. Dry and pretty bland, but inofensive. A bit grainy, with some earthy tea-like hops, odd sweaty flavour though right at the end.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Beer #22 at Dartford Beer Festival with SilkTork and Duff. A bit of a twitchers’ pun in the name of this one - a Dartford Warbler is a small bird that nearly became extinct in the UK, but has now recovered somewhat, although it is not found anywhere near Dartford. The beer was a dark copper colour. Mainly malty, with some bitterness, but nothing that exciting. A traditional style best bitter. Cask (gravity dispense).
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: OCT 5, 2005 July, 2004. Dartford Fest. Gravity. Traditional nutty brown amber bitter. A steady best bitter. Well made, but not outstanding, and just a little too old-fashioned. [3.0]
April, 2005. Three Daws, Gravesend. A good session on this one while meeting up with an old mate. We played a few games of bar billiards and watched the traffic on the river while tucking into a tasty omelette and chips. A good evening. The beer went down nice. Much better than on my previous visit the other day when I felt it was a bit vague and tired. On this occasion it slipped down smooth, and tasted fuller than a 4.3% [3.2]
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