3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) @ Market Porter, 9 Stoney Street, Southwark, London, Greater London, England SE1 9AA.
Clear medium to dark red brown colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, carame, warm caramel, fruity - berry. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet, light light acidic and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101204]
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
First tasted this in the Three Judges, Glasgow in December 1994. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear pale garnet red in colour with a thin white head. A hint of berry fruit in the short aroma. Thin resiny mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a digestive biscuit base with sweet raisin fruit present. Spicy hop resins give a dry herbal flavour to the bitter aftertaste. Finish is malty with sweet glycerine fruit and burnt candy floss evident. A decent session ESB and well recommended.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@Pigs Ear Beer Festival 2011. Copper colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruits, mild floral and nectary notes along with some bitter grassy and caramel malty notes. Flavour is similar in a nice balance. Not very much Xmas in this beer, which is a good example of a quite tasty ESB.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (handpump) at the Market Porter on 4 December 2010. Bright copper colour. A little caramel on the nose and palate. Some fruit. Touch of sweetness tempered by a moderate, tangy hop presence. A very decent strong-ish bitter, although I’m not sure what makes it specifically a Christmas beer (except the time when it’s available of course).
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the market porter. Alround rating: Pale and chcolate malt, floral ghops seem a bit out of place, bitter finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull at Market Porter. Attractive chestnut colour, with a lasting beige head. It’s a pretty good bitter, I tend to like the Rudgate beers and this is another of them.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
(Cask-conditioned at Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Dark copper, small white head. Butter and toffee in aroma with a small accent of Golding hops. Buttery flavour, hints of rasted malt, toffee and fresh grassy hops. A bit unclean finish of the butter again.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Oliver Twist, Stockholm Backlog 20 Dec 2004
Slightly sweetish. Generously hopped. Dry. Dades. Herbal. Good.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Nut brown. Dry and nutty, gently roasty. Solid rounded mouthfeel, nice bready malt flavours. Salty finish. A well made bitter.
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