3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask (Edgar Wallace, Strand, London) - Dark brown in colour. Chocolate, dried fruit and biscuity malt in the aroma. The taste is fruity, malty and chocolatey with notes of raisins and fruitcake detected alongside chocolate sponge pudding.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
(cask@Catford Bridge Tavern) Pours amber with good off white head. Good lacing and medium body. Aroma of malty caramel. Taste is fruity and toasted caramel malts. Very good.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark red-amber, with a lacy white head, malt and a little peach and wine on the nose, initially sweetish and fruity with hints of caramel and nuts, then drying rapidly and leading to an astringent and slightly acrid finish, which lets it down a little.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask gravity at Ale and Bakehouse Westgate on Sea. Deep reddish brown bitter. Very decent best bitter. Rich malts and good bitter leafy hkp on finish. Sessionable best bitter of good character good condition and just plain good bitter.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Ascot Festival 2011. Pours a deep chestnut colour, with plenty of malt and a hint of chocolate in the aroma, the taste is fruity and still has some chocolate with a long dry finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at The Horse & Groom, Caulcott, Nr Lower Heyford, Oxon, 31.07.11 Pours amber with slim white head. Nice bitterness, touch of burnt caramel, chocolatey, with plenty of cocoa powder, tasty bitter with furry bitterness. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov14 3.6
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask. Amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, a bit nutty as well as slightly toasted. Flavour is caramel malts, wood, mild fruity notes as well as some slight toasted and nutty notes. Pleasantly balanced bitter.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
cask at NWAF ... amber ... thin lacing ... soft toffee malts nose ... nice enough soft fruity ... soft offee malt ... light hop ... decent session
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Very dark bitter with the distinctive aroma of roast malts. Bittering hops are evident but aroma hops seem conspicuous by their absence. Short mid-mouth finish. Overall impression is of a beer which resembles those early home brew experiments we all indulged in while in our late teens. A million miles from the sort of thing the big boys would brew, which I guess is in its favour, but I would be hard pushed to stomach more than one.
Whilst I am all behind the sentiment expressed in the beer’s title, to me such an in your face espousal of a cause can be a bit off-putting. Perhaps a little more subtlety is required in both the beer and its nomenclature!
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ Wellington, 37 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, West Midlands England B2 5SN.
Clear dark red - orange amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, sour notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, peat - smoke, light peppery. Body is medium, texture is oily and light sticky, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100115]
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