2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottled: Light hazy, orange to bronze color. Aroma is a strange mixture, retsina, vegetable and caramel. Flavor is fine bitter, rough, long herbal bitter finish. Light to medium bodied. Light unclean.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle, picked up at Saltaire Wines, Saltaire, West Yorkshire 04-05-07. Poured copper coloured, with a nice light floral aroma, tasted a little fruity and hoppy, nice bitterness, very easy quaffing beer that whilst not offering an awful lot to the discerning palate was a nice easy drinking bitter.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled, aquired at Borough Market, London Bridge. Deep golden colour, struggling to hold a thin white hea. Sweaty cardboard aroma. Cripping bitter bite to it. Slight home brew feel to it.
3.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at Narrow Boat, Skipton, North Yorkshire. Copper-amber with a small white head. Attractive fruit and malt aroma. Sweet biscuity malt taste and some late bitterness. Very nice.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned@ Giddy Bridge (JDW), Soton. Dusty earthy leafy hops and lots of them. A little fruity malt but the main focus here was on the hops and theres nowt wrong with them.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
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Cask at Baker Street ’Spoons. Golden brown colour. Plenty of hops. Dryish bitter finish. Bet you have never had one like that before?
2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Half pint from cask at The Central Bar (Wetherspoon) in Cardiff. Dark orange coloured body with a thin white head and some laceworks. Orange fruity smell. Flavour of hops and spicies overlaid by a touch of grapefruit. Brush of bitterness in the finish. Smooth palate. (03.02.2007).
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at Calverts Court (JDW), Stockport 27/01/2007
Lots of carbonation. Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured hoppy and slightly fruity with a crisp and bitter malt finish.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottled. A copper colored beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is of caramel, cream, herbs, and a bit of hops. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of caramel, but also some cream - a bit like candy, but soon a very bitter hoppy note comes along with a light note of herbs. The bitterness runs along the side of the tongue, and leaves it very dry in the end.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JUL 26, 2008 Cask handpull at Folkestone Wetherspoons. Copper colour with lasting bubbly off white head. Very earthy Fuggles through out. Really quite bitter on finish, bit of blue cheese too, in fact really quite stiltony. Malt is ok, but cold back the hop up more. Lovely blue cheese, would go well with crackers, this pint. Really quite bitter and drying. Good condition and tasted fresh.3.6/5.0 Re-rate at Kent BF 08. Brilliant malty session bitter that just isn’t made now. Nothing flashy but it’s just great, lovely subtle fruit
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