Slater’s Haka

Brewed by Slater’s
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Stafford, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle from The Wine Cellars, Lutterworth. Slim-topped gold spotting with lace. Aroma butter, tea, dried apricot and pastries. Subtle lychee notes lurking beneath more buttery croissant dunked in tea and apricot notes. OK but for a NZ hopped beer Disappointing.

Bottle. Bronze with a small head. Clear and slightly sweet with a lingering sweet aftertaste. Certainly a step up from other beers this brewery have produced. Worth trying.

500ml at tesco, Meir. Pours golden with white head. Citrus fruits with good hop balance. The best beer I've had from slaters. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

330ml bottle (Bacchanalia, Cambridge)
Lovely fruity hop aroma, peachy. Pale orange, brief head. Marker pen aromatic retronasals, so yes, that’s a hint of solvents. There’s a pungent earthy bitterness too. Fairly watery palate, crisp carbonation. Pungent hoppy finish, malts a bit thin. Nice bitterness, but has too much of the hop pungency that I find a bit annoying. It’s kind of failing to be an Oakham, and not doing it for me.

500ml bottle - Hazy amber with a loose white head; aroma of tropical fruits and a touch of caramel; full on sweet grapefruit and orange flavours in the mouth with strong resinous bitterness from the hops; then more sweet grapefruit to finish.

500ml bottle. Smells largely floral and grassy with some citrus poking through. The taste takes some really getting used because it comes so close to a wheat beer with its vaguely banana-ish flavours. Once acclimatised it does seem to develop towards fruits like grapefruit and nectarine, but little about it screams NZ hops to me. Maybe I need to alter my perceptions. Not a bad beer, but seemed like an odd one to me.

Very nice citrusy orange with grapefruit aroma, going to sour aroma, golden, clear, minimal head, medium bitterness, light sweetness, light body, slick feel, average carbonation, good but nothing awesome, would appretiate fuller body

Cask, The Francis Newton, Sheffield. Medium gold, bready citrus aroma. Chewy, more bread and yeast, caramel sweet with honey and clove on the finish. Pretty mellow for an IPA but enjoyable.

Hand pulled cask at the Moon & Sixpence (JDW) Hatch End. Clear gold with a lively white head. Lovely citrus hops with tagerines and pineapple. Full bodied clean sweet malts. I sank a few pints of this.

Cask @ The Plough & Harrow, JDW, Hammersmith W6. Pours a clear golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy aroma with hints of grapefruit. FRuity malty hoppy bitter peachy grapefruit flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter finish.