4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20Cask Conditioned at The Crown & Trumpet, Broadway. Amber beer with golden hue, white full head. This is a superb, drinking, quaffing beer, as good as a session bitter gets probably. dominated by a fresh, tangy hop flavour and a hard crystal like malt, helped by a hard water flavour. This is a hoppy delight and I love it.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask handpull, The Lamp Tavern, Brum, 23/04/11. Deep gold with a low white lid and ruff. Caramel and stone aroma. Slight and caramel-rubbed; herbal tones, fern, biscuit. Cooked vegetables softly regurgitated. Pleasant enough. Pisswatter.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (handpump) @ Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Highgate, Birmingham, West Midlands England B5 6AH.
Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, molasses, light hoppy, overripped apple, sulfur. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100116]
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at The Bakers Arms, Broad Campden, Glos’, 06.08.10 Pours dark gold, light amber with a white head. Nice refreshing session bitter, in fact this was much more assertive in the bitterness stakes than I can ever recall and I’ve had this a few times now but never rated it. Malty and then drying in the finish, a very reasonable beer but defiantely playing to the far superior Hobsons Twisted Spire which was in very good form and in an altogether different league. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov12 3.1
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask-conditioned at the Seven Stars, Bristol 2/08/10. A rare appearance for this brewer in this city. Copper coloured with a slight, off-white head. Light, malty aroma of caramel with a hint of fruit, followed by some leafy hops. Flavour had some cereal malts, a touch of fruity sweetness and flinty edge, before a long, bitter finish. Very good.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask. Pours a slightly hazy deep golden with a small off-white head. Lightly tart minerally aroma. Light body, flat, lightly fruity and spicy with a fairly hoppy finish. 160110
2.2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cask conditioned handpump Lamp Birmingham. This was either not right or totally not to my taste; I reckon the former. It’s copper with a white head. Veggy notes and big ugly malts throughout. Didn’t get any bitterness just a bad dryness. Not cool unlike the pub.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@The Criterion, Leicester. Flat looking amber beer with a very strong and slightly vinous aroma. The flavour is very dry and very well hopped. Overall a watery and very dry beer with not a lot about it.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, The Criterion, Leicester. Amber with a small head. Aromas are fresh and hoppy with pear and brown sugar. Some bitter marmalade. Quite sweet and flora. Flavours re pear with sweet grapefruit with caramel and biscuit. Quite flowery with a bitter finish. Toasty with kiwi and melon. Decent.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Handpump at the Prince Of Wales, Foxfield 16/06/2007
Fruit and hop aromas. Golden coloured and a little hoppy with some bitterness in a crisp malt finish.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Hand pulled at the Lamp Tavern, Birmingham. Very dry, slightly aggressive, old-school Bitter. I like Glen’s notes below re: hard, crystal malt and hard water flavour, except that I didn’t find them so enjoyable. A little harsh and overly dry, with some cracker.
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