2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
1st December 2009
Pigs Ear! Clear amber - gold beer. Light hoppy nose. Very low carbonation. Bland malt and hops. Bland even by English Bitter standards.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask-conditioned at the Kent Beeriodical, the Seven Stars Bristol February 2012. Deep gold in colour with a frothy white head. Citrus fruit aroma with some biscuity malts. More fruit in the flavour, with a touch of cereal and dryish finish. Good.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask, The Eight Bells, Dover, 12/02/12. Pale and shining with a slim lacing lid. Tangerine and creamy malt aroma. Cashew, vanilla, orange skin and faintly tropical hop notes. Tang and husk. A bit lightweight but didn’t touch the sides. Clean, perfumed and excellent.
1.4 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
It is 3.8° and it tastes like a mix between fruit juice and some water used for cleaning dishes. Please, do not keep selling it as a Beer, thanks.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) @ Brasserie 4:20, Via Portuense 82, Roma, Italy.
Unclear medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, moderate hoppy, citrus, light grapefruit. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, hoppy, sewer notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110609]
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Eccellente IPA dorata, dolciastra, bella agrumata, leggerissima, quasi una golden ale. Ottima bevuta!!!
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask - Planet Thanet Festival 2010, Margate. Poured a clear coppery amber with a hint of head. Unimpressive eggy aroma with a bit of earthiness behind it. Fortunately not as bad on the tongue - simple, caramel with just a touch of the sulphur - but still disappointing considering the potential shown with their Black Pig porter. Standard body and mouthfeel with low carbonation.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 1 December 2009. A new brewery for me. This is a decent, if unadventurous, early effort. A straightforward, amber coloured, UK style ordinary bitter. Competently executed. But I wish microbrewers wouldn’t ape Green King and badge basic, low ABV bitters as IPAs.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask gravity at Pig’s Ear BF 09. Copper colour slight haze, lasting bubbly head. Some hop on aroma, rubber yeast. Bit of rubber in mouth, not a huge amount of condition. Bit muddy and earthy. Hints of hop on finish. Not enormously good I must say. Bit uncultured, could settle down to be decent in later brews.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Pig’s Ear Fest ’09. Alround rating: Pale clean malt, fairly citrusy with tangarin showing and lemon on the finish, grassy and bitterness in the finish. Giood show for a first beer!
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