3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at the 3 Guineas, Reading, 12/04/13.
Clear copper brown with a beige head. Good lacing ensues.
Nose is malt forward, caramel, dark fruits.
Taste comprises much the same, toffee, fruits, malty.
Medium bodied with fine carbonation with a good dose of bitterness in the finish.
A tidy enough bitter!
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Ambrata non molta schiuma leggero fruttato discreto malto leggero caramello discreta luppolatura
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours a deep amber with a healthy light tan head. Not is caramels and light chocolates with a little toastiness. Taste is hoppier than the nose lets on, with grapefruits and peachiness playing with the malt solidness but winning out and leaving the palate dry and floral. Really solid bitter.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Palmerston Arms, Peterborough)
OK caramelly aroma, but really not selling the beer as being exciting in any way. Taste has a nice barley base, and is a touch sweet. Clearly made from beer ingredients. Some pungent hoppy bite- full flower hops. However, not really grabbing me.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
From cask at 4:20. Pours hazy to almost murky brown with a small tan head. Aroma is hoppy, fruity and light yeasty. Grapefruity and peachy, rather dry and bitter. Light toasted malty and solid bitter into a dry finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask@The Foresters Arms, Reading. Amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is carammel, fruits, some sweeet malts as well as mild herbal notes. Flavour is caramel malts, floral notes as well as some resiny nd herbal notes. Quite standard bitter.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Spotted Dog, Cold Ash, Berkshire, dark amber with a slight haze and a thin clingy head, malt and a little oak on the nose, full flavoured and well balanced with a light tartness.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
1/2 Pint at the Victoria Arms in Wokingham. Copper coloured with a short lived head. Tastes bitter and fruity, a bit of apricot. Pleasant, light fruity aroma. Decent real ale, bit a bit 2D. Fairly tasty but too dry.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A Mes rate. Cask at the Dog n Bell thanks to Carrie.
Dirty amber brown with no head at all. Full on caramalt and a hint off apple. Light bready notes and a delicate bitterness in the finish. Dull but inoffensive.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Straight from the cask at Arkell’s Brewery Beer Festival 2010. Biscuit and hops in the nose. Hoppy tasting and quite good.
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