3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20Cask at Barnton Cricket Club Beer Festival 16/11/2012 Amber coloured, well balanced taste, good session beer
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask (gravity) @ 29th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2012, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England.
Clear dark red brown color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, earthy dark malt, fruity - berry, smoke, butter. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long to average duration, smoke, sweet malt berry, sweet malt, butter notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20121204]
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask-conditioned at the Bag O’Nails, Bristol 29/11/2012. Deep amber in colour, with an off-white head. Sweetish caramel, a touch of citrus fruit and a bitter, slightly roasty finish. Ok.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
4th December 2012
Pigs Ear. Clear amber beer, no real head. Palate is light and dry. Sweet malt with a touch of smoke. Lots of dried fruit including apple. Dry finish. A bit sweet. Okay.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
cask Dean Swift, Nice fruity aromas, followed by some balanced malts, quite oily on the Palate, all in all not a bad beer
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask at Dean Swift. It pours ruby-amber, with a bubbly off-white head. This rapidly turns completely flat. The nose is smoke, burnt plastic, spice and wood. The taste is smoke, wood, leather, dust, gingerbread, spice, plastic and burnt brown bread. Light to medium body and soft carbonation. Tastes infected, I can’t imagine they wanted smoke in this. Not good.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at the Euston Tap. Pours amber-gold with a filmy, white head. Some piney hops on the nose with a bit of citrus and toast. Medium sweet flavor with grapefruit bitters, light resin and pine. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Fine, slightly oily finish, resinous, more pine and light earth, some leaves and toasty malts. A decent beer. Good start for this new brewery.
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