3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at Woodies Beer Festival, New Malden on 21 August 2010. Pale gold. Excellent condition. Flowery aroma. Robust bitterness on the palate. Fair amount of tart citrus. Good balance between delicacy and intensity. Very refreshing. Don’t know how much wheat there is in here but I didn’t spot it at the time.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Loads of hops on the faintly lemony nose give way to a slightly sweet body with grapefruit and peachy malt coming through, and then there’s a big hoppy dry afterbite.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A fruity hop nose. Surprisingly drying. Long and malty in the mouth. Quite delicious.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask @ Volunteer Arms, GBBF 2009. Pours a pale golden color with a small longlasting white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus aroma. Smooth fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at The Cat’s Back, Wandsworth, 12th Oct 2007. Gold with a white head. Aroma of hops, oranges and barley. Refreshing hoppy taste but a bit flat. The Cat’s Back have lost their way when it comes to keeping beer in good condition, so I suspect this would be better elsewhere.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned at Oxford Beer Festival 12-10-07 Thanks to Glen who went and fetched this for me whilst I did a little stint behind the Foreign Beer stand. Poured pale golden, great aroma of grapefruit wafts out from this. Tasted lovely a perfect balance between wonderful sweet maltiness and lovely juicy fruitiness with nice crisp refreshing zinginess every so often to just wake up and refresh those taste buds along with Appleford River Crossing one of my beers of the evening and a great recommendation from Glen.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Cask conditioned at Oxford Beer Fest ’07. Clear pale gold with white head. I really loved this beer, its superbly hoppy and dry, just the way I like it, a bittersweet background, thin anda touch Burtonised and a slight fragrant wheatiness. Then the hops and lots of them, grassy, grapefruit and luscious, an absolute belter and my beer of this festival.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at Bedford BF ’06. Very pale gold with a small white head. Sweet malt and fruit aroma. Sweet, malt taste and minimal bitterness. Good summery beer.
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