2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask handpull at Willow Walk, JDW, Victoria. Amber with thin beige head. Minerally, tangerine, yeasty bitter, confused, muddy. Tangerine flavours are fine. Bit muddled but fruity malt is decent.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pints aplenty at The Sad Hog Tavern. Fresh, fruity, strawberryish hops. A nibble of leaf. Clear reddish pint with a well-retained creamy head. Moreish, malty, refreshingly hoppy sessions.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
A Mes rate:
From a JDW. Diacetyl and iron filings. Pretty awful if you ask me. Something very gents toilets about it. Acrid and pretty close to vile.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask at The Three Tuns, Biddenham, Bedfordshire. Amber with a small cream head. Hop and malt aroma. Taste begins quite malty and biscuity, but a watery middle fails to deliver the expected bitter finish. Not bad, but some ingredients missing.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask. Malty, fresh fruit aroma. Dark copper colour. Nice maltiness. A little sweet. Some aromatic hoppiness. Very nice.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Conditioned at The Cock, Combe, Oxon. Orange amber beer with bubbly head. To be honest G.K have improved on the original, this is a decent autiumn type malty bitter drunk in a very pretty old pub on the quiet end of Blenheim Palace. Sweetly drinkable but still not a great beer.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, the Cocney pub. Amber color with a nice white head. Subdued flavors, nutty, hoppy, juicy, earthy, bit of citrus, easy drinking.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
March, 2004: JDW Welling Woody amber colour with a fair spread of frothy and clinging bubbles. The base is quite dry, but playing alongside and just on top is a velvet sweetness. Vanilla icecream is one of the initial flavours with some rusty and nutty notes mingling attractively. There’s fruit which evades pining down, and a pleasant low bitterness which increases slightly in the finish before settling on a stewed note. Pleasant, with some character, but nothing special. [3.0]
March, 2005:Ropemaker’s Arms, Chatham. Slightly sweet and sticky toffe accented best bitter with a soft lingering earthy finish. [3.1]
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: JAN 9, 2005 Handpump At The Kings Arms.An ok attempt bitter from the Greene King Crew,not my first choice but an ok session if nothing else is available.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask Conditioned, at the George Hotel, East Croydon.
Golden larger coloured bitter. Metallic strong bitter flavour. Very bitter in fact. Dry and slightly metallic, a little bit like Toohey’s Dry.
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