Roosters Wild Mule

Brewed by Roosters
Style: American Pale Ale
Knaresborough, England

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Cask@The White Horse. Yellow color, small white head, some lace. Loads of berries in the nose (white gooseberry, strawberry, passion fruit). Fruity flavor, some lemony hops. Short oily finish with some bitter notes. Interesting.

Cask Handpump at the Calverts Court JDW, Stockport 05/07/2008 Pale hoppy aroma. Golden coloured hoppy pale and slightly fruity grapefruit flavoured with a crisp and bitter finish

cask at cloisters edinburgh... yellow ... light fruity hop nose ... light floral hop ... little juicy ... soift finnish ... low bitterness.

Cask, gravity, at Wellington Arms Winter Festival of Ale. Gold. Aroma of plastic car interior circa 1960. Nasty flinty taste. Sharp bitter finish. ’Stunning aromas of guava and gooseberries’ . What utter rubbish!

Cask, gravity dispense at Merton Summer Beer Festival July 18th and 19th 2008 Pours light golden in colour with white head. I struggled to find the rather fanciful aromas in this beer but when sniffing like a police sniffer dog at Colombian customs I did just get some gooseberry otherwise I found it just non descript fruity aroma. The flavour was fruity some hops and also a nice citrus edge a little tangy and really quite nice.

Gravity, at the excellent Merton summer festival. Pale gold, frothy white head. Tomcat and gooseberry aroma with a fresh grapeskin edge. The sauvingon blanc aroma comparison in the brewer’s notes is not really that much of a stretch. Really interesting musky quality to the flavor, flinty with a light clean malt, simple enough to let the distinctive hops shine through. The rating for this suffers a little in that as much as this was a really fun new sort of hop aroma to experience, I don’t think I’d want hop breeding to push this way as the next big thing.

Cask conditioned at Merton Summer B.F ’08. Greenish Gold with white head. A beer I had really been looking forward to, I found it to be quite yeasty and perfumed in character, stand out hops on a lightish base, but not quite to the extent you expect from this brewery. Still not bad though.

Cask conditioned @ Giddy Bridge (JDW), Soton. Excellent tropical fruit aroma like one of those posh fruit salads with passionfruits, kiwi, mango etc rounded off with some fresh citrussy bite. Just enough malt sweetness to add a bit of body but doesnt interfere with the fresh fruitiness, tangy zesty bitterness but not overpowering. Very quaffable with good length in the mouth and pretty moreish.

With a couple of weeks maturation and a minimal amount of venting, this beer is stunning when first on. The description they give (as with all their beers) is spot on with the addition of grapefruit and some really firm malt. More of the same I’ve heard. Well there are similarities to most of their beers, of course - pale and hugely aromatic beer is something of a forte. The actual fruit flavours that derive from different uses of different hops is wonderful and sometimes subtle, sometimes bold. This has a big finish and the variety of fruits work very well together. Not good though if not looked after. As per. Really balanced bitterness that adds to the mouthwatering character, the aromatic fruits just lead on perfectly to the palate.

Cask in the counting house. Aroma was minimal, grassy an citrus though. Taste was similar, though fuller, sweeter pale malts and citrusy backing. I agree with Ian, this is an exact copy of hophead, but not quite as good.