3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20UPDATED: JUN 9, 2007 Cask (The Gallows Bird, Espoo). (Also had in Angleterre, Helsinki).
Perfectly balanced English bitter. Plenty of back-of-the-tongue biterness, but complemented with a pleasant maltiness. ALmost like ’malted milk’ biscuits. Slightly sweet ginger as it evolves. Session beer, perfectly served.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull, The Anchor, Bur-bar-zhuh. Orange gold with a thinning slick. Fresh hops coming off as it warms; lemon, maybe pineapple jelly, minerals, soft resins like pencil shavings. Faint hop juiciness, stewed tea, citrus. Can’t get rid ofthe pencils. Creamy lemon puff afters. Bland but decent.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Handpump at the Bear & Billet, Chester 08/03/2008
Some pale malt aroma. Small white head. Golden coloured hoppy and floral with a little bitterness and dryness in a crisp full malt finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ County Hotel (JDW) Ashford. Copper coloured, citrus malty nose, fullish in mouth, slightly sour, with good balanced citrus hoppy finish. After drinking mid brown beers all day, I liked the refreshing spring hoppiness of this
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask Conditioned at The Rose & Crown, Charlbury. Pale gold beer with thin head, a thin malty flavour with a little lasting bitterness. Some green fresh hop flavour in a round lemony finish.
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