Stonehouse Cambrian Gold

Brewed by Stonehouse
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Oswestry, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask conditioned at Far From the Madding Crowd, Oxford. Hazy gold to amber with white head. Slightly grainy, malty beer, there is a touch of rawness about it. Some apricot fruitiness, squidgy fruit rather than crisp. Lasting bitterness later on. Reasonable.

Bottle. Slightly cloudy (live-beer!) gold ale with a decent white head. Nose is sweet and fruity - peach and tangerine. Quite watery and light in the mouth, but there’s some nice flavours: peach, lemon, tangerine, some wheat. All very light and the finish is gentle bitter. Doesn’t outstay it’s welcome and imparts just enough flavour to make it interesting.

The beer is named after the old (Cambrian) railway line that runs alongside the brewery, the gold bit being the beers colour! Bottle Conditioned bitter, brown 500ml best before Jan 2009, drank Jun 2008. Poured into an ’Old Speckled Hen’ vase type pint glass. My second beer of a Shropshire Beer Reviewing Evening. Colour is an old, dull gold with plenty of bubbles popping up towards the full foaming white head, looked good to me. No sediment left the bottles base but the condition of the beer was ’spot on’. Very little aroma, so hops and yeast, but not much more to my nose. Dry, hoppy and refreshing. The dryness intensifies in the aftertaste/finish, but not cardboard dry, more a satisfying clean pallet type feel. Yet another fine beer from a microbrewery in Shropshire.

Full bodied, texture nice in the palate, not much flavour but by no means a bad beer.

Got this beer on cask at The Marlborough Arms in Chester. Appearance: Dark hazy golden honey in colour, with a small creamy head. No carbonation. Aroma: Sweet on the nose, with a subtle hoppiness. Clear notes of grapefruit. Taste: Peppery sweetness at the start, with a slight sugary hit. Mild honey. There is a bitter floral ending, with clingy hop flavours. Mouthfeel: Medium body, slightly thin, with a kind of greasy texture. Drinkability: Good hearty British bitter. Very drinkable and moreish. I will definitely be looking at the other beer produced by Stonehouse Brewery.

UPDATED: MAY 16, 2010 1. Cask Handpump at the GBBF Earl’s Court, London 09/08/2008 Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured hoppy and fruity with a little bitterness in a crisp and dry malt finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Marlborough Arms, Chester 13/02/2010 Floral hop aroma. Golden coloured smooth on the palate and hoppy with a dry and fruity malt finish.

Cloudy pale amber with a small white head. Fruity aroma of peach and oranges. Sweet and fruity flavour, rather thin

Cask @ GBBF 2009. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma. Sweetish malty hoppy flavor with some hints of caramel and some fruity hints. Has a sweetish malty hoppy bitter finish.

Lots of small dimples on top of an amber-copper body. Lemon-hoppy aroma. Rounded apricot flavour with a backdrop of dry bitterness. Pleasant summer feeling (Cask from The Bar Nouveau at GBBF, 07.08.2008).

Cask@GBBF2008. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is sweet fruits, wood and yeast. Flavour is dry fruits, some yeast and caramel malts. Dry palate.