3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20Cask@GBBF2007. Deep amber colour, small off-white head, which lasts for quite a while. Aroma is spices, rotten apple, slight nuts and fruity hops. Flavour is rotten apples, spices and some wooden and fruity hints.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Coppers in Newcastle. Copper coloured with caramel and toffee flavours and a bitter and creamy finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
50cl bottle picked up in Hastings. Amber with a loose cream head and moderate carbonation; the aroma has malts and caramel - almost candy floss; the flavour has barley sugar at first the some clean Kentish hops giving a pleasant bitterness, and then finally a hint of citrus.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Amber beer with a strong head. The aroma is hopped and yeasty, and the flavour is smooth, hopped and lightly bitter with a long dry finish. Overall a nice English bitter.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: OCT 23, 2011 Cask conditioned handpump Barley Mow Brighton. A dark brown beer with a whitish head and lace. A very dry earthy bitter. Fruity and leafy aroma. Fairly bitter and pretty ordinary. Score 2.8
Subsequent rating scored 3.4. Average becomes 3.1
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Peterborough beer fest. Alround rating: A good balanced bitter, grassy citrus hops, biscuity malts.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at Chris_O’s 19th April 2008 tasting. Pours copper with a big white head. Hoppy but with some malty balance. Soft, average palate.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A Mes rate: bottle at Chris_O’s Ha Ha Ha Ha Gimme the Cheese Tasting.
Pale amber with a slight white head. Reasonable balance, delicate hoppage / caramel / malt. Dry-ish finish. So so.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at GBBF 2007. An amber beer with no head. The aroma is sweet malty with primary notes of caramel, and so is the flavor, leading to a dry bitter and nutty finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark golden with a small white head. Malty, toasty aroma, some munich malt? Dry and malty flavour with grassy hop notes.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Clearish amber pour with a strong toasty nose along with honeyed herbs. Biscuity flavour evolution, rather sweet and with simplistic golding hops that are all out flowery. Medium-bodied, fair carbonation. Dry palate from the malts more than the hops. Fair.
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