Vale Hadda’s Summer Glory

Brewed by Vale
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Aylesbury, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask at GBBF 2006. An orange beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of fruit. The flavor is sweet malty with primary notes of caramel, leading to a dry and fruity end with a light bitterness.

Cask@Market Porter, Southwark, London. Deep orange colour, white head, lacing. Aroma is hops, fruit and some caramel. Flavour is the alike, but quite much more bitter/sour than the aroma would warn you of.

Cask @ Edgar Wallace, Temple WC2. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty slightly floral hoppy aroma. Fruity malty floral hoppy flavor. Has a sweetish fruity malty hoppy finish.

Halfway house edinburgh ... Slightly hazy orange ... light hop nse ... fruity hop with some grapefruit hop.

Cask Conditioned at The saye & Sele Arms, Broughton, Oxon. Golden beer with white bubbly head. Light refreshing quaffing bitter, hoppy, grassy and easy drinking. Nice summer beer, quite complimentary to food for a great Sunday afternoon. Enjoyable.

Cask conditioned - NBC Club Northampton. A golden coloured bitter with good white head and lacing. There is a lot of acetyl in the nose. The taste is very full and tasty with again butterscotch notes - which I like. A good beer.

Cask (handpump) at GBBF, August 2006. Day 1, beer #7. Attractive deep golden colour, tending towards amber. Otherwise a pretty standard "modern" summer ale. Clean, soft and easy drinking. Touches of citric hop. Decent but short of excitement.

Cask, gravity Merton Summer Beer Festival, July 7th 2006 restrospectively added from notes Amber in colour, small head, good hoppy nose, juicy fruity and really rather tasty, some sweet honey lingers in there but nice beer.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 2     Pale Yellow(1)->Dark brown(5) : 3     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 2   White(1)->Tan(5) : 2   Lasting: 1   Lacing : 1
Aroma:
Intensity : 3  
Yeast : 2   Bread : 2   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Soap : XX   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX Sulfur : XX  
Malt : 3   Biscuity : 2   Hay : 3   Toasty : XX   Caramel : XX   Nuts : XX   Honey : XX   Cereals : 1   Grainy : 2
Hops : 3   Noble(1)->American(5) : 1   Leafy : XX   Spicy : 2   Floral : 3   Lemon/Lime : 2   Grapefruit : XX   Orange : XX   Herbal : XX   Grassy : XX   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX  
Notes :   Peach/Apricot : XX   Earth : XX   Mint : XX   Butterscotch : XX   Smoke : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Sourness : XX   Bitterness : 2   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 2   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2   Clean : XX   Sharp : XX   Watery : XX   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : 1   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: Citrusy, fresh ale with a good balance of bright hops.