3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at GBBF 2009. A reddish brown coloured beer with a white head. A fruity malt aroma, the taste sweet with fruit and malt, with a slight sourness in the finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@GBBF2009. Coppery colour, small white head. Aroma is caramel malts, some hops, wood and also mild fruityness. Flavour is quite much the same along with bready notes as well.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, handpump, at GBBF ’09. Coppery gold. Thick, sweet malty aroma like sponge pudding and treacle. Some sourness joins the treacle in the taste. The finish is sharply bitter. Very acceptable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Derby Summer Beer Festival 2009. There’s a malty and sweet aroma. The flavour starts bitter but then weakens to end with caramel and malt. There is also a floral flavour throughout. A good beer, but expect better from Thornbridge.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask in the market porter. Alround rating: Bit of chocolate malts the pale malts seem hidden but theres no real malt character dominating, lightly herbal, brassy and very bitter. Decent stuff.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: MAR 14, 2010 Cask conditioned handpump Coach & Horses Dronfield. A light amber coloured beer with a white head and lacing. There is
bread coffee and fruit on the nose with good berry fruits in the mouth together with bready malts and lovely hop notes. A superbly balanced bittersweet beer. Score 3.6
Subsequent rating also scored 3.6.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Derby Winter Beer Festival 2009. This copper coloured bitter has a nice malty sweetness with suggestions of honey and butterscotch with a grapefruit rush of hops on the finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: SEP 23, 2008 Cask, Inaugural Knickersby Fest 08. Best conditioned beer of the festival, hands down. Heaped persistent froth exuding nutty malt and toasted seeds. Lemony citrus and unfamiliar fruit. Fig? Fibrous and woody. A bit weird, but good.
3.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JUL 24, 2010 Aug, 2008 Rutland Arms, Bakewell. A pleasant, old fashioned best bitter. Nice toffee accent with a dusty hop finish. Good. [3.2]
June, 2010 JDW, Rochester. Standard best bitter with pleasant toffee and orange marmalade notes. Nice. [3.3]
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask handpull at Coach & Horses, Dronfield. Copper, thin beige head. Malty aroma, light grapefruit hop, really drinkable best bitter. Bit of toast/caramel, lovely malty flavour and some good hop bite on finish. I could drink that all night.
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