2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20Cask, one-third pint at P4 Gray Bar, third day at GBBF’11. Bright surface to a crystal clear, golden coloured body. Fruit bitter nose. Smooth taste profile of citric fruits, including lemon and resin, added by a mild touch of ripe banana. Dry, subdued bitter endnotes. Rather tasty brew (London, 04.08.2011)
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tasted this in The Esquire House, Glasgow (JDW) in November 2008. Cask, handpump dispense. Pale straw in colour with a thin white head. Superb aroma of toffee and ripe mango fruit, long in intensity. Thin resiny mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt base gives a medlay of fruit flavours with lychees, peaches, and honeydew melon present. Plenty of aromatic hops abound in the long aftertaste with tart citrus notes of grapefruit, lemon and goosberry. Tart bitter finish with dry grapefruit pith but not too cloying. A decent session Golden Ale with a complex range of fruit flavours. Well recommended.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at GBBF. Grassy and fruity aroma with some citrus notes and a hint of diacetyl. Sweet grainy and fruity flavour
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy - fizzy, good - fair lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, toasted, soft pale malt, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration, citrus, flowers - fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110804]
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask @ GBBF, 2011. (4,9%) Poursclear yellow with a small off white head. Grain, corn and hay. A bit of vegetables. Medium bodied.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On cask at JDW, Stone. Pour golden with thin head. Quite tart with a dry finish. OK.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: JUN 11, 2011 Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW. Pours clear yellow with a bubbly, white head. Sugary, crispy malt nose, hay and straw. Fairly sweet flavor, biscuits, wet hay, baked corn, some dry grass and straw. Light in body with fine carbonation. Finish has some white sugar, burnt hay, faint lemon rind. Not bad, pretty drinkable.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask - The Bell Hotel (JDW), Norwich. Hazy golden yellow body with a small, soapy & slowly fading white head. Crisp lemon & orange citrus notes with some sweet underlying pale malt on the aroma. More lemon on the tongue finishing with a pithy marmalade bitterness. Rounded, lightly carbonated, crisp & refreshing palate.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, handpump at The Swan & Castle, Oxford, with Loz, Jude & Baz 30.04.11 Some hops come through, but quite subdued, fruity and little sweetness with some citrus also in evidence. Golden in colour with some haze, some wheat shows. Its fine but not that memorable. A6 A3 T6 P3 Ov12 3.0
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Bear and Billet, Chester. Very fruity and mellow. Seems like there is more than 50% barley malt in here, as there is a good barley taste. Great wheat flavor, though, too. Very strong hops. It is rich and fruity, with a fruit and hop finish. Very nice.
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