2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
330. Pours crystal clear rubied medium amber with a loose and slightly sudsy whitish film. Treacly molasses nose with brown bread showing. Creamy medium body with understated carb. Caramel molasses and olives on the mid palate, maybe a bit of honey. Mild bready finish.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Translucent amber with a persistent thin beige head; medium-full body with medium-high carbonation.
Aroma: grainy malt, fruity esters like apple cider and banana cream pie, a sourness, and woodsy hops.
Taste: grainy bread crust malt and minerality, minty herbal woodsy hops, and some faint sourness.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours mahogany into an English pint. Off-white head pancakes as it recedes leaving spot lacing. Caramel and toasted nut aromas. Sweet caramel and bread upfront turning dry in the lasting toast and hop finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear medium amber colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, fruity, malty, light hoppy. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, malty, wood bitter notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20101227]
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pale amber/ruby pour thin off white head light sticky lacing .... aroma of sweet malts and fruity hops light roasted .... taste is sweet malts and fruity with a watery mouthfeel and a light roasted and slight bitter finish ... thin and weak brew nothing special
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle poured into a pint glass. Pours dark amber with a light tan head. Aromas are sweet malt and raisins. The taste is toffee and malty up front with some mild lingering bitterness on the finish. Creamy mouthfeel, but lacks the creaminess in would expect on draught. Overall, one of the better bottled English bitters.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Amber with a small off white head. Modest aroma of caramel, nuts and flowers; some pears and berries. Slightly oily but pretty thin and lifeless. Sweet malty/ fruity beer with hints of flowers and spices. Malts threaten to intrigue but then seem a bit stale. Disappointing in the way that bottled bitters all too often are.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml bottle. Pours a clear copper brown, with a large off-white head, which lasts quite well, leaving good lace. The nose is classic bitter - slightly oily pine hops, with a touch of sweet citrus and some buttered toast notes. Quite strong pine hops to start, with a hint of lemon and sweet orange coming in. This moves on to a rich, toasty malt body and a lingering floral finish. A decent bitter, and a good session ale.
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