3.8 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Very nice pale ale not overly bitter.
Very quaffable. Highly recommended.
3.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Crown Belfast, barely touched the side. Pale golden with pleasing peppery citrus bitterness and light malt caress. Spot on condition
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned handpump Pump House Brighton 21/05/12. A golden beer with a white head and lace. Decent orangey hops throughout. Good citrus flavours. A nice body. A touch of tropical fruit. A good quaffing ale.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at The Globe, Nicholson’s, London. Pours clear gold with a small, fluffy white head. Basic golden ale here. Plenty of dry straw, bits of dough and citrus. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly sweet to finish, a bit of zesty lemon, straw and biscuity malts in the finish. Very basic, refreshing beer. Nothing wrong here.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Hand-pulled pint in the strange but beautiful Bacchus in Birmingham, an M & B badged cellar bar on 5th Dec 2012.
Fairly robust light amber colour: not your regular ’Pale Ale’ hue anyway. The head being off-white and thin from the start.
Leans towards semi-sweet maltiness rather than hop fronted: pleasant enough without exciting your taste buds or smelling senses too greatly. Biscuity, baked malts with a mini-hop finish to balance out the sweetness. This is OK but I wanted something better: I like both the Nicholson’s pub chain and St Austell breweries beers but I hoped this would blow my socks off, it didn’t.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap at The White Horse. Pours clear golden amber with a small off white head leaving laces. Aroma is fruity malty citric and a bit sweet. Flavor is grainy malty citric bitter caramel a bit sweet. Finishes bitter sweet fruity. Drinkable with moderate carbonation.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at a pub near London bridge. Floral crass hop nose. Caramel creamy white head. Caramel malt green grass hop . A little flabby. But decent.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
[cask, Greyfriars Bobby’s Bar, Drinkmonger Edinburgh] Clear golden amber with a decent white head. Aromas of grassy hop, lemon and some wet hay. I wasn’t expecting as much hop on the finish, but it was reasonably citrussy. Not Sierra Nevada territory, but a well-made English Pale Ale. There is, as you’d expect, a St Austell beer it reminds me of, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it [10072012]
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Blackfriar, Blackfriars 30 Okt 12. Mørk gylden. OK kremaktig skum med litt farge. Etterlater nivåmerker på glasset. God ferskenaroma. Smak av mørke frukter. Litt tungt. God fylde. Antydning til fjøs. En bra start på årets studietur sammen med Rune.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask - The White Lion, Covent Garden. A clear golden amber beer with a small, mostly lasting lacy white head. OK biscuity pale malts & citric, grassy hop with some yeast in the background. Light to medium body, crisp carbonation and palate texture with a lingering, medium intensity bittersweet finish.
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