3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle (Renaissance Hotel, South Normanton): a deep amber colour with long lasting white head and moderate carbonation. Aroma of malt and stewed fruit, taste is smooth and sweet with a hint of raisin and a dry finish.
3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A dark amber to copper brown coloured beer with a thickish white head. A light, slightly sweet malty aroma is followed by a hint of hop. The taste is smooth, sweet, malty and biscuity with a drying hop flavour to finish. (Cask - The Fox & Hounds, Heacham, Norfolk).
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
An excellent grippy best bitter from a new brewery. Copper colour. Very dry and distinctly bitter. Oodles of sharp, tangy hops. OK, its not laden with multi-layered complexity, but what it does, it does very well. Cask (gravity dispense), Reading Beer Festival 2005.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (Morley Hayes Golf Club) 2006-7. Robust, no-nonsense bitter. Sharp hop, dry bitters; for ages this was the only Peak beer you could get as they concentrated on getting one beer to be spot on. And indeed it is. To have it on cask at my 19th hole makes it even better.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. Orange appearance with lots of bitternes. Some presence of hops with a lingering dry bitter aftertaste. Definitely above average.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, handpump at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Castleton, Peak District, Derbyshire 20.09.10. Pours chestnut in colour with an off-white head. Nice light nuttiness and lighty malty. Tasty bitter beer with good bitterness, very pleasant some vanilla also showing, some citrusy streaks also. Really good beer in a very good pub. A6 A4 T8 P4 Ov14 3.6
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@GBBF2007. Deep golden colour, small beige head. Aroma is wooden, toffeeish and fruity. Flavour is mainly wooden and slightly spicy and vanillaish.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from CAMRA, Nottingham BF ’07. Copper gold with a white head. Malty aroma with just a hint of hops. Taste is sweet caramel malt with a mid bitter finish. Pretty good.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask. Caramel orange, smooth and proper. Tart citrus hop over creamy caramel malt. Copper nose, acidic.
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