3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned at Harbury Beer Fest ’08. Pale gold with white head. Good dry lemony beer with a hint of Burtonisation, sulpher. Fully flavoured for a light beer with good hop impact, quite grassy and tangy. Very good.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Cask@GBBF2008. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is eggy, some sour fruits and mild spicyness. Flavour is very much the same along with some pine. Quite eggy and vegetably finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cloudy golden with medium white head. Sweet fruity aroma with piney and hoppy notes. Flavor likewise with a mild bitter end.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (GBBF 2008) - Golden in colour. Lightly citric aroma with some hops and malt. Clean taste with grapefruit,hops and malt. Not bad.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask, Far From The Madding Crowd, Oxford. Straw gold, powder-fine white head. Cinnamon and tangerine aroma, just a bit of green grass: all bright spring-like aromas. Crisp fine spicy hop flavor, a light toast finish. Delicate body, but a pleasant delicate, not thin. Bright pit-fruit esters. A real stunner at the 3.2% it’s listed here. (Need to check that’s right.)
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ Piglet BF. Golden with a thin white head. Hops, citrus, apple and malt in the aroma. Taste is much the same, hoppy and fruity with some malt underneath. Standard but sinkable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: AUG 9, 2009 1. Cask Handpump at the Star Inn, Huddersfield 31/03/2007
Hop and citrus aromas. Clear golden coloured hoppy and citrus with some bitterness in a crisp malt finish.
2. Cask Handpump at the GBBF Earl’s Court, London 08/08/2008
Very hoppy aroma. Clear golden coloured and hoppy with a little dryness in a crisp malt finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@Reading BF. Light, lightly hoppy, and a touch on the sweet side. Some earthy dry malt in the finish, with touches of sulfur.Not too much happening.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
A golden orange coloured beer with a thiish white head. a light zesty hop nose with a biscuity malt aroma. The taste is dry and hoppy, zesty, fruity and slightly grassy. Then a smooth, sweet biscuity malt flavour that balances the flavour. A weak zesty hop finish. (Cask - The Fox & Hounds, Heacham, Norfolk).
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: DEC 9, 2007 Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Northampton BF. A golden coloured beer with hints of white head. The aroma is spicy hop with hints of sulphur. The taste is quite bitter with a reasonable malt balance. A pretty tasty golden ale. (5,3,7,3,14(3.2)
Second rate
Cask conditioned - handpump - Malt Shovel Northampton. Really lovely hops in both the aroma and taste. Grapefruit and lemon to the fore. Very very fresh tasting. A joy to drink (8,3,8,4,17(4.0).
Score is an average of the two
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