Nethergate Umbel Ale (Cask)

Brewed by Growler (Nethergate)
Style: Bitter
Sudbury, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at Angleterre, Helsinki. Colour is clear copper with small white head. Aromas and flavours are citrus, bitterness, grass and hops.

On cask at JDW, Sutton Coldfield - An orange body with a thick light orange head. The aroma is very flowery, with some spicy notes, and a bit citric. The flavour is sweet and again very flowery combined with hints of perfume and coriander, leading to a dry end. Not bad, but easily forgettable.

Draught @ O’connel’s, Tampere.
Pours clear gol color with a small head. Aroma of goose berry bush, some fruits and grass. Flavour of grass, goose berries, mild fruits and some hay. Bitter palate.
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UPDATED: NOV 17, 2012 161112. Tap at at oconnels, tampere,. Pours clear golden with a small head. Aroma butter, hops. Bland buttery taste. Meh.

Cask at the Elm Tree, Cambridge. Fairly weak aroma, but who cares about that! The flavour is amazingly floral with a huge hoppy bitterness and some spice from the coriander. A really excellent brew and quite different to anything most people will have tasted before.

Cask @ JDW Elgin 221012
Amber, clear, dense white head, some lacing
Aroma - Coriander, citrus hops, soft orange, floral hop, peppery herbs
Taste - soft pale sweet fruity malts, bitter light zesty hop, some black pepper, soft oramge, dab of coriander initially, certainly not bland here - after a while it gets TOO herbal and peppery and rather overpowering
Palate - soft carb, thin to medium body, quite oily. Finish as main flavour, lingering fairly bitter herbs, black pepper, orange, long bitter quite complex linger, long long herbal linger, almost tingly bitter.....it’s harsh but there a lot of flavour in there
Overall - Interesting beer, lot of flavour, puzzled by comments below that its bland....maybe its very inconsistent or I had an unusually strong flavoured batch. Too overpowering after a while and gets hard to drink. Rather flawed to be honest

Hand pull, The Felix Holt (JDW), Nuneaton, 23/10/12. Draped gold thinly lidded with white. Vinegared hay, lemon and glue on the nose. Drab and hay-like with a smidgeon of green herb. Poor.

First time I’ve this in years, a sad disappointment with the coriander being virtually non existent. Poured a medium golden/amber, aroma was of mild malt without any of the expected spice. Medium to watery body, just simply lacking and bland.

Cask at JDW - Bishop Vesey; branded as Growler Brewery pretty sure it is the right beer, pale yellow quite watery with minimal flavour.

Amber ale with a fair bitterness in its taste and aftertaste, hopped citrus notes are evident, especially in the aroma