Skinners Spriggan Ale

Brewed by Skinners
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Truro, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Guest at Queen Victoria, Walsall. Simple and fairly average. Golden colour, with a small head. Sweet aroma and flavour.

Cask@Kingston Beer Festival, London. Quite nice. Some floral summer fruits, with a slight grainy texture, very nice and pleasant. Nothing complicated here, simple and nice.

Cask@ Crosse Keys: Gold with a small white head. Hoppy mildly sulphuric aroma. Biscuity malts in the start, with a nice hoppy bitter finish. Some citric notes there too. Refreshing yet smooth mouthfeel. Nice session bitter.

Cask Conditioned, at Crosse Keys, London.
Golden bright sudsy head. Faint pineapple aroma. Forward fruit salad flavour. Short to medium length. A decent bitter.

Gravity Cask @ Hants Bowman, Dundridge. Yeasty, musty, biscuity malt aromas. Well balanced but unremarkable.

UPDATED: DEC 18, 2005 Pale gold colour. Quite lively for a beer served from cask. Rather odd aroma - slightly musty - no doubt the Goldings. Judging from the colour, I was expecting something clean and hoppy, but there was a lot more malt than I expected with a distinct lack of balancing acidity, although some bitterness did make an appearance rather late in the day on the finish. Quite drinkable, but not really my favoured style. Cask, GBBF, August 2003.

Cask Conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Marmalade colour with short head. Thick sweet aromatic beer, heavy palate. Bitterish aftertaste with some hoppy character.

From tap: Orange golden color, slightly hazy, short dying head. Carbonating, creamy body. Aroma is sweet amber, malty, hoppy. Sweet bitter taste, malty. Slightly bitter palate. Nice brew.