Ridgeway TVA (Thames Valley Ale)

Ridgeway
Brewed at Hepworth
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Reading, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle to go from You’ll Never Walk Alone, Kolding. Clear golden with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and fruity. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 300313

Bottle.Dark golden colour with white head.Aroma is malty and slight grainy with.taste of hops and malt,medium body and light mild finish.

19th April 2010
Ligft haze on this amber beer. Light soft palate. Light malt start, tastes slightly aged. A bare whisper of hop. Finishes light and malty. Not a bad flavour for it’s abv. Quite drinkable too.

Bottled, 500ml from Millets Farm Shop, Frilford, Oxon. Amber with no head. This was pretty flat with a sweet, malty flavour, some cereal but little in the way of hops to my taste. Unexciting.

275ml Brown bottle, just out of date when reviewed in Aug 2011. Poured into a Batemans badged half pint sleev glass. Mid, to light amber body, clean and clear looking. Very thin white covering of bubbles as a head, which fell away to next to nothing quickly. The nose was weak, some mild molasses giving hints of toffee arrived as the beer warmed. The taste was more malt than hop but there was an uncurrent of hop bitterness below the malty front. Easy to sup and flavoursome considering the alcohol content is only 3.4%ABV. Not bad at all.

275ml bottle. Pours hazy orange with no head. Aroma is a bit grainy, some lemon and boiled sweet. Taste is dusty and bready malt. Some lemon. Pretty good for the low abv.

Bottle. Medium head with medium duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are plain malt, hops, grass and notes of caramel. A bit watery.

50cl bottle from the Home Brew Shop, Aldershot. Bottle conditioned. Pours amber with a fading white head and some light carbonation; the aroma is fruity with traces of musty honey; then light malty flavour, with some gentle hoppy bitterness before a dry biscuity finish. A rather good English Pale Ale style beer.

Bottle Conditioned. Pours a golden colour with a thin white head, not much of an aroma but hints of fruit and malt, the taste is slightly bitter with citrus and a dry finish.

Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Citrus notes. Light bitter flavor. Average light bitter finish. Watery palate. Ok but too thin.