Oakham Scarlet Macaw

Brewed by Oakham
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Peterborough, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Sharp nose with gooseberry, lychee and fresh lemon juice. Pours a burnished copper with a fluffy head and very strong lace. Flavour is richly citric with some candy notes, a lot of mango and papaya, some grapefruit rind toasted in honey and a strong underpinning sprucey bitterness. A hint of earth in there as well. Finish is more bitterness, long, dry and very very moreish. Excellent.

Appearance: Clear golden color with a fine white head that leaves a nice lacing.
Aroma: Caramel malty, fruity and citric hoppy.
Palate: Medium body. Moderate sweet and a nice bitterness. Soft carbonation.
Taste: Fresh citric hoppy. Malty and a round fine fruity edge.
Overall impression: A pleasant surprise. Nice refreshing and tasty blonde ale.
Personal stats: Handpull at Swan and Rushes in Leicester, England.

Cask @ Babelas Leicester. Peachy fruity aroma. Nice tart fruit taste with a nice hit of bitterness to finish. Tasty. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Big melon sorbet nose, pale clear yellow body with tinge of red and a slight white crust of a head. Smack of a fruit medley and a very crisp hop rinse. Very sweet midrange and a Wham Bar fruit and neat dry drag of a bitter biscuit finish. Slight lemon curd tinge on the linger.

Cask, Malt & Hops, Edinburgh

Cask at The Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a clear medium amber with a big frothy head. The aroma is grassy and hoppy. The flavour is medium to strong bitter, with a huge hoppy bitter, slightly floral palate. The bitterness in the aftertaste is so strong and there is almost liqourice there. It’s nice to see some strong hoppy bitterness for a change rather than bitterness derived from alcohol. I’m sure this ale will be very popular.

A dark golden to copper coloured beer with a strong aroma of citrus and gooseberry, which erupts into a fruity bitter on touching the tongue. The strength is well masked by the hoppy flavours that are consistent will all of Oakham’s beers. I has a good white head which lasts until the end. The flavours develop into a dry but refreshing bitterness that leaves you wanting another a must try beer and a great addition to the bottled selection!

Bottle from Cotteridge; clear copper pour with thin white head, zesty citrus aroma, quite hoppy peachy taste. Really crisp refreshing could have a session on this.

Cask at The Harp, Covent Garden, London. Clear golden beer with a small offwhite head. Fruity, hoppy and refreshing aroma. Hoppy flavour with some fruity notes.

Bottle from Cott. Nose as described above. Then a little soap with the gooseberries. I think my experience of soap with out of date Arbors has done damage to my palate, I always detect the soap these days. Ah well. Least I have less of a potty mouth. Looks like it won’t be Tom after all. What did I do wrong? It can’t be about me. Though, the previous sentence simply doesn’t read right.

Pint at the Nags Head in Reading. Light orange-amber, with a fair bubbly head. Bitter, well hopped, dry but decent. Fair citrus/grapefruit aroma. A bit zesty, goes down well.