3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Chestnut brown with creamy head. initially served very cold and it tasted like a dud, luckily on warming up it recovered extremely well. Quite bitter for an Irish Red, hoppy and fresh giving a tingling effect across the tastebuds, almost as if the hops were slightly charged. Lasting and tasty on the palate, pretty good.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask gravity @ Bree Louise, Euston NW1. Pours a slightly hazy reddish color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with hints of caramel. Fruity malty hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy finish with hints of caramel.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask/handpump at Questors in Ealing. Pours a dark red-brown with a fine white clingy head. The nose is creamy, malty and grassy, then the palate brings a full body with nuts, oak and roast malt. The aftertaste is very astringently bitter.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask handpull, The King’s Head, Llandudno. Clear chestnut under a cream swirl. Watery berry fruit, coffee and earthy malt aroma. Some decent oily hop bitterness, coffee, slight dankness. Cinder toffee hints and hazelnut as it warms. Hints of flavour there. Not balanced and somewhat empty.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
cask at JDW ... copper ... creamy tan head ...light fruity malts ... soft rich toffee ... little spicy hop.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, JDW, West Kirby. Dark copper colour with a lingering medium sized creamy off white head. Fruity aroma, fairly understated. Sweetish flavour that had a caramel malt spine with redcurrant and raisin notes. Gently bitter finish. Reasonable enough stuff.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask-conditioned at the Lloyds No 1, Bristol 18/11/09. Reddish-amber with a slight white head. Malty aroma, with a hint of earthy roastiness. Flavour had some sweetish malts, nuttiness and a dry finish. Good.
2.7 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Handpulled cask at JDW Iklenham. Amber red with a good off white head. Fruity malts with a touch of caramel and late balancing english hops.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Knights Templar (JDW), Bristol. Reddish brown with a thin cream head; fruity aroma; caramel malt flavour; sweet and earthy finish.
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