2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
A very enjoyable straightforward honest bitter. Medium bodied. Medium carbonation. High on hops and a bitter ending that quickly gives way to citrus sweetness which lasts in the mouth.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask. Solid ruby brown colour, with lasting white head. Fruity nose, with nice hop/malt mix. Pronounced hop hit to go along with the typical smooth finish of a bitter. Plenty of earthy character as well. Great stuff.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Rich head, dark red/brown color. Smooth, good body, moderate metallic bitterness, buttery caramel, earthy, a little wood chip. Aroma: a little metal, a little body odor. A spanking beer. (cask at the Rose and Crown, Oxford, June 2012)
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. A hazy brown coloured beer (with the yeast poured in) with an off-white coloured head. A yeasty aroma with a candy sugar note to it. Quite bitter at first but then transgresses to a semi-sweet yeasty beer. Pretty decent.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Ascot Festival 2011. Pours a clear copper colour with a thin off-white head. The aroma is malty with hints of caramel, the taste is all grapefruit with a long dry bitter finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@Rose And Crown, Oxford. Amber colour, small head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, mildly nutty as well as some resiny notes. Flavour is sweet maltyness, some wooden and earthy notes as well as some mild nuttyness.
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Wow: nose-smacking hop aroma humming with overripe satsuma, lychee, exotic pollen. A real sniffer. Pours mellow, coppery bronze with a fat, unmoving cream foam and slight veil of haze. Full-bodied and complex with pithy, tropical-hinting hops (pineapple, lychee, orange, grapefruit), robust husky malts and a good dry, lingering bitterness. Green, earthy, flowery burps like a mouthful of Geraniums. Really pleasant, tangily hopped, slightly humming bottle conditioned English. When I was expecting something drab and brown.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
[500ml bottle (from Millets Farm Shop, nr Abingdon) that Dad shared with me - cheers!] Murky auburn with a small off-white head. Odd kiwi and urine flavour (kiwiwee?!) mixed in with nice fresh hops and lots of malt. On the sweet side, could do with a bit more crispness. Not up to the Prospect from the same brewery.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Amber body, white head. Lots of hop aroma, nice malty backbone. Slightly roasted malt, sweetness, round hoppy taste. Nicely balanced. Nutty. Smooth and crisp bitterness. Good bitter.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity) @ The 16th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2010, Reading, Berkshire England.
Clear medium orange amber color with a average to large, fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, grapefruit, citrus and orange. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, spicy hop finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100429]
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