2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/2050 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is malty and mild fruity. Slight butterish and herbal grassy to spiced hoppy. Ends dry and bitter.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Now 3.5%ABV: hand-pulled half-pint at the 34th Telford Beer Festival (Crown Inn, Oakengates) on 4 May 2013.
Clear amber/golden body with a thin white head of bubbles on top.
Malty for an IPA, in both the nose and mouth with just a hint of floral hops to stop it being an overly sweet smelling and tasting beer.
Biscuit/bread more than sweeter molasses, the beer having a pleasant semi-bitter feel throughout. An ideal starter, it set my taste buds up nicely for the Mild and dark beer attack I was about to begin.
2.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
MiLd easy drinking no head good mouthfeel. Nice to have a few. Will feel you up. Malty. Bit sour.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Tasted 17/4/2013 draught "The George Inn", Lacock, Wiltshire. Poured a clear golden colour with a thin white bubbly head that diminished quickly but laced a bit. Aroma dominated by floral hops. Taste of hops bitterness - typical IPA. Light body. Short hoppy finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask.
Originally rated on 20110727.
Pours clear copper color with a minimal head. Aroma of citrus fruits, caramel and nutty malts. Flavor of caramel, fruits and mild hops.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Great Queen Street, London. Pours clear good with a soft, white foam head. Very simple, classic bitter. Some lightly toasted bread, mellow leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Good condition. Mild sweet finish, bready malts, light grains and leaves. Pleasant.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: FEB 18, 2013 Golden amber in colour with a thin white head. Hoppy aroma. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts giving a chewy digestive biscuit flavour instead of the full blown citric notes expected from an IPA - a pleasant surprise indeed! Raisin fruit notes evident and slight hop resin dryness in the balanced finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Goat and Tricycle, Bournemourh. Poured a clear golden brown with a light frothy head but bags of lace. No real aroma of note. The flavour is all about the malt with just a hint of bitterness that lingers for a while on the palate. A very drinkable beer it must be said, but not the kind of IPA that I was expecting. A very good session ale though.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Half at the Master Builder, West End. Pours clear amber with a small white head. Light malt and hoppy aroma with a little caramel. Same in flavour, light sweet and light bitter. Drinkable but thin bodied and not very exciting.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours amber with a beige head. Aroma is malt and light flower. Flavour is malt, flower and grass. Light bitter.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Sampled this IPA at Coanes, Johnstone in June 1998. Cask, handpump dispense. Golden amber in colour with a thin white head. Hoppy aroma. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts giving a chewy digestive biscuit flavour instead of the full blown citric notes expected from an IPA - a pleasant surprise indeed! Raisin fruit notes evident and slight hop resin dryness in the balanced finish.
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