3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Tasted this at the Troon Beer Festival in October 2011. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear copper in colour with a thin white head. Fresh green apple in the short aroma. Robust creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a fiery ginger bread base with sweet hints of golden syrup and brown sugar. Spicy hop resins impart a slightly dry bitter aftertaste. Finish is robust and warming with a slight sherry and oak cask notes. An excellent session bitter which is full flavoured and tastes far stronger than the og suggests.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask @ 12th Ayrshire Real Ale Festival, Troon 2011. Light brown colour, off-white head. Nose is caramel malts, bit of fruits and candy sugar. Flavour is light caramel malts, citrus, fruits. Slightly bitter finish. Not on par with their other beers.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
16 June 2011, tap at SRAF. med orange, clear, no bubbles, bubbly head. nice nose. slightly sweet amber ale w/ dry barnyard straw and some soft wet woody notes. med body and slightly fizzy. dry copper ale, some bitter grassy hop finish. okay.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Medium white creamy head. Faintly hazy coppery body. Fruity wooden aroma with vinegary notes. Dry-sweet perfumy caramelly fruit taste with wooden roasty notes. Mild, smooth mouthfeel. Mid-bodied. Dry-acidic fruity caramel aftertaste with wooden notes. Not bad. (0.25l cask, Guildford Arms, Edinburgh.)
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Amber with a small white head. Weak fruity aroma with currant notes. Dry and thin fruity and malty flavour
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at Scottish Real Ale festival 2009 ... Copper ... sweet fruity malt nose ... juicy and fruity ... watter hop ... little bitter not for me.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ White Horse, Parsons Green SW6. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Slightly sweetish malty nutty caramel flavor with some earthy hoppy hints. Has a sweetish malty nutty caramel finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Cask at White Horse, Parson’s Green, London, 9 Aug 2008) Dark amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty, nutty nose with notes of dark fruit. Malty taste with dark fruit, nuts, toffee and a decent earthy bitterness in the finish. Good balance. Very nice beer.
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