3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
650mL bottle, pours a clear pale golden yellow with a medium white head. Aroma is very pleasant, of English biscuit malts, dough, yeast (brett-like) and some light piney hops. Flavour is very similar, with the biscuity malts and dough upfront, leading to a dry, pleasantly hoppy bitter and yeasty finish. Very mild flavours, though quite impressive for being 3.8%. Very well-constructed and certainly way above par for the usually boring, ambition-less style. Quite enjoyable.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at home. Pours very orange, head dies very quickly. Nice lemony hop character, some breadiness. Orangey flavours, nice bitterness, pleasant grain notes. Nice palate, fine bubbles. Very sessionable, I imagine it would be terrific off cask.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Densely hoppy alpine hop nsoe and a milky yellow body, almost Weiss-esque before settling. Minimal zest on the uptake of initial taste before a slalom of hops on the palate with a cuttingly dry ending that doesn’t quite match the effort which preceeded it.
A bold bottle conditioned effort for the ABV on show, but with a finish more akin to pasty American lagers than a celebratory English effort. Again, would happily re-rate on cask.
Bottle, Great Grog, Edinburgh
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(cask@Catford Bridge Tavern, SE London) Pours light gold with a thin white head. Aroma/taste of Citrus hops, yeasty, pine, slight biscuit mineral malt. Decent! (D14)
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle: Poured a cloudy dirty beige color ale with a small foamy head with limited retention and almost no lacing. Aroma of dry hops with light bitterness notes. Taste is a mix between dry malt backbones with some dry bitter hops notes. Body is quite full with limited carbonation. Not bad and probably a hops profile that was faded due to age of bottle but still interesting nonetheless.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Hazy golden with a small white head. Fruity aroma with perfumed floral notes and a bit of marmalade. Dry, malty flavour with fine floral and citrus notes
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled (thanks hanniku!). Golden colour with mediumsized white fluffy head. Aroma is very fruity, mildly grassy, floral as well as aramel malty. Flavour is quite strongly fruity with also some floral and grassy notes. aramel malts as well as some slight toffeelike notes balance the whole up into a quite pleasant brew. Quite dry wooden and grassy finish, with also a bunch of fruityness in it.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours clear golden with a medium white head. The aroma is fruity, citrussy and floral. The flavor is citrus, fruit and grassy. Bitter citric finish. It came at 4% abv.
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3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle, at Christianssands Brygghus. It pours a semi-clear golden colour and a small off-white head. The aroma is mostly on the citrusy, piney side, with some malty notes. The flavour too is mostly on the hoppy side. Pine cones, resins and bitterness, with a touch of sweetness towards the end. Medium to full body with pleasant carbonation. One of the best British bitters I’ve had. 130314
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
66 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is mild yeasty and distinct floral hops. Mild bitter and fruity flavoured. Bitter and fruity hoppy flavoured finish. Bone dry.
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