3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On cask at The Holy Inadequate, Etruria. Pours copper with off white head. This has a good feel, quite complex for the strength. Some butterscotch and a decent ale.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask,gravity at Redditch Beer Festival,Worcestershire.Mid brown coloured pour with a small head.Aroma of malt with some spice.Nice fruity malt taste with a fruity ending.Good enjoyable beer.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled, 500ml from The Hop & Stagger Bottleshop, Bridgend, Shrops. Burnished gold with white head. Good fresh tasting malts with a reasonable amount of sweetness and fruitiness, fructose. The hops are lightly added giving a more rounded beer rather than taking over but adding a slight peppery note. A good accomplished beer if somewhat diminished by the filtering for bottling.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
50cl bottle from Tanner’s Shrewsbury. Pours golden with the odd bubble and a nicely proportioned head. The nose has a grassy nose on a pale malt background. The taste has bitter lime and oranges with a biscuity finish. The palate is medium to large in body with a big tangy middle section and a tangy clean and very long finish. Overall, this is great - really complex and tastes much bigger than 5%.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, earthy and caramelly along with some nectary notes. Flavour is fruity wooden, caramelly and floral with a quite pleasant fruity bitterness in the finish.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
cask at readig ... golden amber ... soft floral orange zezt ... little mellon .. little card bolard ... not for me
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
9th Nov 2011: Hand pulled pint in a local pub, a standard UK sleeve being the receptacle. Not as light in colour as it’s bottled version, or so it seemed to me anyway: the same off-white head on top, but lasting longer than my bottle review.
A mixed bag of smells; malts and hops combining to produce a pleasing and beery aroma.
The flavours were also a good blend of sweetish malts and spicy hops (Goldings and Fuggles I believe). Re-created to taste like a 19th century IPA, wouldn’t know if they’ve got it right or not, but it certainly tastes good! A rural, rustic feel to it with a citrus bittering towards the end of each mouthful.
Good character and body, suits the 5.0% ABV it carries: not sure a 19th century IPA would have been this clear to look at, but I liked it in both bottle form and in cask (on more than one occasion).
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Woking Festival 2011. Pours a mid brown colour with a thin tan head, plenty of malt and hints of spice in the aroma ,the taste is also malty with a dry and fruity finish.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle. Pours light gold with a large head. Aroma is dusty lemon hop. Faint. Taste is sweet to start. Medium bitter, sweet straw finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpump consumed at The Woodman, Shrewsbury 28.08.10 (2nd visit) Pours a light brown with off-white head. Fruity and malty beer with a non nonsense rustic character. Solid tasty beer, fruity and drying at the end. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3
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