3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Oh SJ, you never cease to amaze me.
Golden pour with a spice and fruit Aroma (Mostly peach).
A straw, bread and spice flavor that is accompanied by some hop and fruit. Interesting.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (handpump) @ The Standing Order, 62-66 George St, Edinburgh, Scotland EH2 2LR.
>Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate to heavy hoppy, grass, flowery hops and soapy hops notes, light citrus. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, hop flowers, dry, light citrus. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101029]
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at the Central Bar JDW, London. Clear yellow pour with a fimy head. Bready malt nose. Lightly sweet wih gingerbread and dry, grassy hops. Light in body with fine carbonation. Very dry, grassy finish with strong, lingering gingerbread notes. Nice beer.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol 10/11/10. Amber coloured with a small white head. Light citrus hop aroma with some sweet malts. Flavour had some more citrus fruit and a dryish finish. Not a lot going on given the ABV%.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
From cask at Benjamin Huntsman, Sheffield. Pours slight cloudy (wasn’t quite settled in when I asked for it - so I assume it should have been clear). Aroma is peachy and citrusy fruity. Mild mango fruity and peachy flavoured. Mild bitterness and crisp citrus hoppy. Lingering fruity and crisp hoppy into the finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Conditioned Gravity Dispense Eastgate Northampton. A clear orange coloured beer with a tiny off-white ring of head. There is a little citrus in the nose but it’s quite faint. Better in the mouth but not Earth shattering. There is decent citrus and some sweet malts and gloopy alcohol.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Plough & Harrow (JDW) in Hammersmith. Deep gold with white head. Pine and herby hops on nose, then rounded and very well balanced malty and crisp hoppy body, with notes of peach and cloves. Great stuff.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
[Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading] Golden amber with a thick, creamy off-white head and slight carbonation. Light and watery - there’s clearly a few hops in there with a vague pine, mint and green leaf ambience, but it’s surprisingly muted for a US brewer. Very disappointing - should it be called bland ambition?
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
The Baron of Stinckley. Orange gold with a slender white foam. Grassy, limey hop aroma with straw and underlying biscuit. Watery at 5.5% but douses the 5-chilli heat of a JDW ’piri piri chicken curry’ (vindaloo) tastily; bright jellied orange and lemon sherbet hopping rounded with cream, wheat, biscuit. Impression of ground coriander. Clean and zesty, good hop notes but doesn’t follow through with the bitterness it needs.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the October ’Spoons fest, the Capitol, Forest Hill. Gold/amber coloured pour with a white head. Sharp citrus nose with a hint of herb. Citrus flavours with a hint of mango and pineapple. Light, bitter finish. Not bad.
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