Oakham Asylum

Brewed by Oakham
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Peterborough, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask (handpump) @ Nags Head, 5 Russell Street, Reading, Berkshire, England RG1 7XD.

Clear medium yellow orange colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, citrus, light grapefruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, citrus, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120502]

Cask conditioned at The Brewery Tap, Peterborough. Gold with white head. Sharp dry bitterness from the off, quite hay like on the aroma, newly cut, bready dry malty body then a lively, citrusy hop mingled with spuce and pine. Lasting bitterness. Very nice.

Cask, The Pub, Leicester. Golden with a bubbly, thin foam. Aromas are grapefruit and light, woody pine with base biscuit, nutty malts. Resinous with herbal and floral notes. Stewed and caramelised apple with mellow lemon. Flavours are apple with pithy grapefruit juice and clean, herbal, grassy hops. Lemon shred marmalade. Floral and fresh on the palate with a grapefruit bittersweet finish. Dry and long on the aftertaste. Supremely drinkable. I’ve been after this beer for a while - very pleased that I finally found it.

Cask @ The Rake, London. A golden body with a moderate sized white head. Aroma is light malty with delicate citric fruit and hint of grass. Flavor is smooth malty with lots of citric fruit, pleasant bitterness and hint of grass. Medium body with a nice bitter aftertaste. A pleasant beer.

Cask@Nags Head, Reading. Golden colour, small head. Aroma is sweet malts, some hops, grass and mild floral notes. Flavour is fruity, caramelly, wooden and some mild herbal notes. Nice UK style IPA.

Cask at the Magpie, amber-gold with a fluffy white head, loads of citrus and grass head-in-a-hopsack nose, then a punchy yet very well balanced hoppy body with faintly tangy malt underlying a dry citrus bitterness. Very tasty, the astringent aftertaste is just a tad OTT, though.

Cask @ The White Horse. Deep amber orange color with a lovely, creamy white head. The nose is strong, of citrus and tropical fruit. Some grapefruit, mango. Sugar cookies. The taste is aggressively hoppy, grassy. Tongue smacking. Light tartness. Assertive with a refreshing dry finish. Overall, great.

Cask, The Criterion, Leicester, 20/05/11. Burnished with a slim white neck. Lychee, just-bitten apple, white grape aroma. Lovely stewed hop Vs malt taste; Darjeeling spurted with grapefruit, ’fruit salad’ with red apple, grape and melon. Deep bittering husk; the bitterness of grapefruit. Keeps going to the bottom of the glass; pears and chalk, cider, deep husk. Tropical insinuations. Best Oakham Beer of The Day by a mile.

UPDATED: DEC 21, 2010 Hazy orange body, big hops citrus and passionfruit nose. Body has has pineapple hops and a massive malt backbone. Really bitter but fruit filled. One of the better beers I’ve had the luck to try

Cask. The Pub, Leicester. Citrusy, lots of grapefruit, grass, very hoppy. Some spiciness. Hazy golden colour, with a medium white head that lasts. Medium to heavy bitterness. Good mouthfeel, astringent finish. This is a great beer.