2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ The Feathers, Westminster SW1. Pours a clear dark golden color with a small off-white head. Hasa fruity malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel flavor with some weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty finish with some hints of caramel in the aftertaste.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at Argyll Arms, Oxford Circus 17 Nov 08. Golden colored. An OK creamy head clinging to the glass. Some fruity aroma. Malty, but a bit perfumed flavor. A modest, dry bitter aftertaste.
1.7 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
<i>Cask Conditioned at Woodin’s Shades, London</i>
Cloudy golden color, with a creamy head. Bad aroma, like the beer that flows in the tray, or fermenting fruits; is this the first pint of the day? The body is soft, but there is an unexpected sourness; less bad than the aroma, but very suspicious. I can’t drink it.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Charlies Bar, Copenhagen. A hazy dark amber beer with a thin light tan head. Both the aroma and flavor are sweet malty with notes of caramel, while the body is light.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ the pub next to Lyceum Theatre.
Pours hazy golden with a small, bubbly, white head. Okay duration. Aroma is doughy malts, a little caramel and weak fruity hops. Low carbonation, fine mouthfeel. Flavour is pleasantly sweet, lots of malt and with a soft hoppy touch. Good, rather fruity aftertaste. Tasty.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask, Bear and Billett, Chester. Darkish orangey brown colour with a thin whiteish head. Thinnish hoppy aroma. Similar flavour with a bit of malt. Pretty uninteresting.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned @ Humble Plumb, Soton. Golden.Sweetish biscuity malt and some tangy citric hops. A little yeasty sulphur spoils the balance.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: DEC 1, 2010 Cask, gravity, at Bedford Beer Festival ’07. Amber. Malty aroma. Faint malt taste, otherwise a bit vapid... no, actually it’s rather good. Anyway that’s what I wrote in my notes. 1.12.10, Cask at Pilgrims Progress (JDW), Bedford, after the end of ’Spoons Beer festival ’10. Gold with a small white head. Malty aroma and very sweet taste, slightly grainy. Some bitterness. Easy drinking and enjoyable. Served a bit too warm. This rating is probably more valid than the last, as I was probably well away that time. Rating: 6,3,6,4,11:3.0
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