3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Taster, on cask at The Hoop, Stock, 16/03/13. Clear orange. Sugary, herb-like aroma. Strange, sweet, herb taste (hard to put my finger on. I thought it might have been some sort of gruit beer). Candy / caramelised sugar. Bit yeasty. Drinkable & OK, but quite odd.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Golden red in colour with a very potent sweet berry aroma. Its taste is rugged with biscuit flavours.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 8/20
3.7% amber colour with a thin head, malt and hop aroma, malt and some hop in the taste.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Crystal clear auburn with no head. Woody, hoppy aroma with sweet, fruity notes. Initial taste is weak and watery but there is surprisingly strong bitterness in the finish, given the low ABV.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at Björn, thanks.
Fine beige fluffy head. Amber color. Woody hop aroma with pale maltiness. The taste is also a bit woody from English hops. Dry finnish.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
First tasted this at the Paisley Beer Festival in April 2006. Cask, gravity dispense. Clear copper red in colour with a thin white head. Tang of metallic hops in the short aroma. Thin resiny mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a slightly peppery note to the digestive biscuit malt with tart redcurrant fruit present. Prickle of earthy hop resins give a metallic note to the short bitter aftertaste. Finish is rather weak with malt just about evident along with some tart pithy citric fruit. An ok session bitter but nothing special though.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, The Devonshire Cat, Sheffield. Amber brown, yeasty caramel aroma. Sweet with caramel and a slightly metallic finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Clear amber body, small white head. Aroma is malty, nutty and buttery. Little crispy and dry finish, some metal. Nice maltiness and balanced.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. Hazy deep amber, small head. Distinct spicy hop aroma. Dry and crisp with light body and well rounded mouthfeel. Slight caramel, plenty of spicy hops. Long bitter finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
poured a deep dark amber with a fluffy white head.
overall impression was of quite a heavy beer with lots of malt and a little fruitiness in the taste. the aroma was pretty much the same.
not really sure I’d want to session this, it’s too heavy for that.
a decent bitter
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