3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20UPDATED: SEP 13, 2007 Cask at The Freemason’s Arms (Covent Garden - London).
Light and much vanishing head. Red limpid color, clearly and stationary. Flowery and woody scent; pleasant notes of toasted malt and ash. Dry, smooth and arid taste. Little alcoholic but a lot watery on the end.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at Tom Cribb, Shep’s, London. Pours clear copper with a sturdy, white foam head. Classic twig and berry nose, fuggles, some toasty bread. Light sweet flavor, mellow leafy bitterness, light dirt, faint tangy berries. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Light sweet finish, some ashy leaves, dirt, burnt brown bread toast. Fairly bland, though not offensive.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (Casey’s Canterbury)
Loads os sweet black tea in the aroma. Deep orange, small spongy off-white head. Some tobacco too. A touch minerally retronasals, some marmite, some spice, some sourness. Dry, almost astringent bitterness. Finish dry. An odd one, not bad, but a bit watery.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Clear amber coloured beer with small white head and no carbonation. Hopped sweet aroma. Wattery bit bitter palate. Finish is rather bitter dry.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask handpump at The Lamb, Farnham, Saturday 10th March 2012 Possibly the beer in the most spankingly good condition of the day. Pours a sort of copper colour amazing clarity. Ok its really just a nice session strength beer, little furry on tongue, steady bitterness, clean with a little dryness at the end, but it’s very good. A7 A5 T7 P3 Ov14 3.6
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Coach and Horses W1. A typical english bitter, good session beer, deep copper/brown colour, malty flavour, less hop, finish perhaps unremarkable. Quite malty for SN, not having the typical hop/spicy house style for me.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Copper in color with a bit of suds. Lightly malty (buttery diacytl hints) and a bit of earthy hop notes. Moderately carbonated and served pretty cold (for an English ale).
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at some pub in Deal. Pours a clear amber, with a small off white head. Aroma was light pine, toffee, light roasted, caramel. Taste was slightly piney, nutty, caramel, orange rind and toffee. Didn’t mind it
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at the Wharf. deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, butterscotsch, malt. Flavour is fruit, butterscotsch, malt, citrus, hop. Fboring beer.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at The Wharf. A clear amber beer with a small off-white head. Slightly unpleasant nose, garbage-like, but mostly malts, dried fruits and citrusy hops. Dry, medium body with flavors of citrus and some sweet crystal malts. Dry, bitter finish. Nothing impressive going on, but quenching and tasteful. 101020
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@Thw wharf.Pours copper with a tiny white head.Aroma of citrus, fruitiness, malt with some sourish notes.Flavor fruity,nutty and malty with some bittterness .Medium body, soft carbonation.
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