3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Dec 2012 - draught - mild fruity session beer, easy going and pleasant enough.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at the Cask, Pimlico - 26/02/13.
Clear dark amber with a medium sized bubbly off white head that retains well.
Nose is earthy, citrus, orange, toffee, light urine.
Taste comprises hops, orange, caramel, grass.
Medium bodied with moderate carbonation, smooth on the palate - nice feel, some bitterness in the finish.
Decent drinkable sessiony stuff.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask@ Blue Stoops Chesterfield. This seems to be a popular one but it doesn,t float my boat. Powerful aroma that becomes a bit too powerful,if you know what I mean. The taste is interesting to start with,but after a while becomes too elderflower and not much else. I,m not sure we need the yanks to teach us anything about beer...or cars...or planes.....
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On cask at Craft Beer Co., Clerkenwell, 9/1/13. American amber ale. Clear amber. Very weak aroma. Pretty malty (pale, cara, with a touch of darker), with some hop: What hops there are, are good: Spicy, with some grapefruit & pine, but weak. Bit too sweet, not enough hop.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Cask at Black Door, 20121122) The beer poured deep mahogany coloured and clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had citricness, malts and caramell. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were citricness, pine, malts, caramell and bitterness. Aftertaste was hoppy, malty and bitter. A tasty hoppy American style amber ale. Aftertaste was a bit unpleasant.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask @ Black Door, Helsinki
Pours amber reddish orange with a bubbly head. Aroma of caramely malts, floral hops, grass and fruits. Taste is caramely and hoppy with notes of floral hops and fruits. Finish is hoppy and slightly caramely with mild soapy notes. Nice, easy to drink, highly sessionable amber ale.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Gallows bird, Espoo. Color is dark amber with small head. Aroma is caramel, hops, fruits. Flavor is caramel, hops, malt, watery.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Black Door, Helsinki)
gentle sweet caramelly fruity aroma, fleshy fruits. soft palate, carbonation pleasant, but still low as you’d expect from cask. simple malty body, lightly toasted grains, gentle, slightly earthy= bitterness. Drinkability high. Very simple, but a very tasty orangy brown bitter. loved the spongy head - stayed the whole time.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Blackdoor in Helsinki. Dark amber in color with a bubbly tan head. Light grassy hoppyness and fruity tones in aroma. Mild and enjoyable to drink. Flavor is light grassy bitter and some sweet fruityness as well. Nice, but could ave been a bit more noticable somehow.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask at Black Door, Helsinki. Colour is copper with white thick head. Aromas and flavours are fruits, caramel, some hops and malts. Soapy.
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