Weetwood Oast-House Gold

Cask at GBBF 2006. A yellow beer with a bubbly off-white head. The aroma is sweet grassy and hoppy, and the flavor is sweet malty with notes of hops and citrus, and towards the end also a light note of metal. The end is quite bitter, and the mouthfeel is thick and sticky.

Cask handpull at Ship & Mitre, Liverpool. It’s gold, obviously with a thin beige head. A strong golden beer in the Summer Lightning vane. In fact if you gave me this and said it was Summer Lightning I’d believe you. Some yeast on armoa, a bit sweet in mouth. Drying citrus hop on finish.

Cask (handpump) at GBBF, August 2006. Mid gold colour. Styled as a summer ale but the significant levels of fruity malt and the earthy hop notes contributed by the Goldings put this firmly in the bitter camp rather than golden ale. Although the hops aren’t particularly aromatic, there are plenty of them. An easy drinking and quite well-balanced ale without being anything spectacular. The wheat does not make its presence felt very prominently.

1. Cask Stillage at the Morris Dancer, Kelsall 14/04/2001 Quite dry on the palate with an oaty flavour. 2. Cask Handpump at the Morris Dancer, Kelsall 04/11/2001 Golden amber coloured pale and slightly fruity. Malt and hop finish. 3. Cask Stillage at the Memorial Hall, Northwich 21/09/2002 Clear golden coloured with a slightly sour flavour. Full hop finish. 4. Cask Handpump at the George & Dragon, Great Budworth 08/12/2003 Clear golden coloured and hoppy with some fruit flavour. 5. Cask Handpump at the Black Lion, Nantwich 30/09/2006 Fruity aroma. Clear golden coloured hoppy and fruity with a crisp and slightly dry full malt finish.

Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest 07. Gold yellow with pale head. Quite a sweet beer straight from the off, maybe some depth from a thinnish malt, caramel, butterscotch. Little on the finish.