3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask Conditioned, at the GBBF, 2004.
Rich chestnut colour, adorned with a fluffy beige crown. Vanilla and spiced aroma complimented by a soft malt flavour. Easily quaffed.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask conditioned - handpump - GBBF 2004. Muddy brown coloured mild with some maltiness to the nose. There is a pleasant caramel taste to this but otherwise it is fairly thin and watery.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Cask-conditioned at the Great British Beer Festival, Kensington Olympia, London. (Thursday Session). Very thin, watery malt. Nothing to this at all.
1.1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 2/20
Gravity, Reading Beer Festival. Opaque reddish black. Faint pine, red wine & coffee aroma. Flat, dead and watery. Dreadful. Probably the worse beer of the festival. Time to leave the Celtic beers. Gazza has already switched to the Belgian beers.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
[Cask conditioned] Dark brown coloured. Sweet malty aroma. Sweeet flavour with a mouldy touch. Thin finish.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask, GBBF. Dark brown color, hardly any head. Slight caramel aroma. Caramel, coffee and just a hint of slat in the flavor. Sweetish and thin. Nasty fishy aftertaste.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Standard mild appearance with a mild malted aroma. Lightly hopped flavour with a floury thick palate. A very plain lightly hopped mild.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Disappointingly mild. As the publican said, perhaps this is true to a vision of "something you can drink on a hot summer's day" [for an English palate on a "hot" day of 75F] but far too dull for its deep ruby red appearance. At least there is nothing offensive here. (on tap, Far From the Madding Crowd, Oxford)
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