3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Pale gold with white head. Good, biscuity, sharp malt body, dryish and just light enough carrying quite a peachy, fruity flavour, hoppy, again quite dry and refreshing. A pretty decent beer.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask. Straw yellow with a thick cloud-white head. Smells of peaches and sweet malt. Tastes of peaches and sweet malt, with a dash of pepper and lemon. Pleasant enough with a strong finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
1 pint from cask @ The Bouverie. Pours clear golden with a low creamy head. Aroma is malts. Flavor is floral malts with some hops. Easy to drink, not bad.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Golden with a small creamy head that stays. Has a malty aroma but little taste.
1.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Poure light and golden with a thin white head. Minimal aroma, flavour of absolutely no note whatsoever. Somebody might have once waved a picture of a hop at the fermenter, but it obviously didn’t catch on.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Handpull, Great Western Castle Green Hotel, Kendal, Cumbria, 15/02/13. Lager gold without bubbles; fine shaving foam top. Pale, lemony, straw aroma. Soft and mineral-driven with cereal milk notes; a honey and hay stillness; hints of aniseed. Throwaway.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@royaloak, west brom. Pale gold medium creamy head good lacing. Aroma is slight floral. Taste is a little floral and a little bitter. Very smooth on palate. Not bad.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On cask at Duke Inn, Sutton Coldfield - light golden colour, white frothy head soon dissipated away to a coating. The aroma is floral, a bit of a feint malt in there, with the first taste soft and fruity - not sure which, but I’m torn between nectarine or mandarin. The body is slick, smooth, with a little bitter after kick. Not Theakston’s best, but it is good.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On cask at brewery visitor center. A sparkling clear yellow with a creamy white head. Aroma with a hint of honey. Hints of lemon and honey flavor with good level of hop bitterness.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at the Adam. A pale bitter. I didn’t get so much of the fruitiness they talk of on the label, was more of a house Theakstons dry, slightly chalky, slightly sharp bitter. Ok, good for a session.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
From an oak cask by handpump at Paisley Beer Festival (25 Apr 12) - clear pale golden ale, non-existent white head, floral hop aroma, peach light hop flavour, oily feel
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