2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear light medium amber yellow color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, boild egg, light roasted, light to moderate yeasty, cheap toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. chlorine. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110102]
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Giddy Bridge JDW, Southampton) - Amber/copper coloured. Dried fruit and malt in the aroma. Fruity and slightly hoppy taste with notes of dried fruit and a mild bitterness.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
From 500ml bottle at tasting with Jan & Charlotte on 2 January 2011. Amber colour. Good condition. Some sulphur in the aroma with just a hint of unpleasant bleach. Otherwise a fairly standard, quite fruity, bitter. Not really too much Christmas-like here. I’m not convinced the bottling went quite right.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Amber with white head. Slightly on the thin side but there is a juicy, fruity, leafy hop, the body is a bit grainy, but the hop nicely compensates. Reasonable.
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