3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
50 cL bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a lacing white head. Orange fruity and citrusy hops aroma. Crisp and fruity hops flavour, delicate and refreshing with a light bitterness and lasting fruity flavour. Mild delicate fruity and bitterhops finish.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Chris o’s... golden yellow,big juicy hop,dry american hop and loads of it. little grapefruit
2.7 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Chris_o’s GBBF Shindig 08. British bottle conditioned flavour - slightly sharp. Light & fruity. OK, but poorly conditioned so difficult to pin down the beer. Probably an APA influenced blonde ale by the sugar sweetness and the citric hops.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A Mes rate: Bottle at Chris O’s Pre GBBF Tasting
Semi hazy gold with a thin but stable white head and some lace. A decent English IPA if you ask me with a good hop content, zesty and citric with a dry and assertive bitter finish that eventually balances by just a hint of sweet bready malt. Decent beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. Golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma and flavour are both very fruity, nectary and has some mild grassyness and mild notes of some wheatlike "sweetness".
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cloudy golden with medium off white head. Sweet fruity aroma with hoppy notes. Sweet flavor with hops, grapefruit and piney notes. Ends bitter.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle conditioned, 500ml. From Asda, Leamington Spa. Gold with short white head. Dry and bitter but I didn’t particularly get the zingy hops I was expecting. Yeasty and dryly malted, mid roast colours with a slight lactic acid taste. It’s ok.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Poured with a large head that took a long time to dissipate.Quite bitter with some hoppines.Reasonable but difficult to drink because of that awful head.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from the Dodgi Deli Cowley Road, Oxford, 03-08-07. Poured golden, maybe bit darker, good white head. Great hop hit, nice zingy citrus pithiness leading to quite a dry finish, refreshingly lacking in sweetness and tasted better and stronger than 4.6% really punched above it’s weight and you felt that this brewery had eeaked as much out of this beer as they possibly could. Aroma was nice and citrusy bit floral maybe. Very nice IPA even at this strength.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: SEP 6, 2010 Bottled. Pours not-especially-pale orange gold with a creamy white blanket. Tangily bitter orange hops, quinine-dry finish, plenty of countering biscuity malt after the swallow. Distant mandarins in the nose. An impressively bitter and zesty interpretation packed with unfussy citrus hop goodness. Just wish I’d poured it through a tea strainer.
(Re-rate, 03/02/08-bottled score 3.1) Cask, The Lord Nelson, Ansley (brewed out back). Intense, chlorophyll-packed leafy snout humming with hop resins, tomato leaf, cannabis, geranium.... wildly fresh, green and hoppy. Mouth bursting with rounded mandarin and grapefruit hoppiness. Absolutely outstanding, unrecognisable from its bottled form, and as ourageously fat and hop-drenched as IPAs 3% stronger, without being overly aggressive. Top 100 material, on my doorstep. A revelation.
(Re-rate, down from 948417- 4.2!!) Cask at the Lord Nelson again. What happened to the hops? This is not the beer at no. 3 in my ratings. Malted milk, negligibly citrussy Black Country-style smooothness like the Bathams BB/Sadlers I just had up the road. Pineapple and peanut traces presented pale, too cold and and nitro-creamy. Where’s the hairy, chlorophyll-laden citrus? MOR golden ale- faintly tropical and milky. A wash out.
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