3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is crisp citrusy and peachy. Bitter, light toasted malty and peachy to grapefruity. Bitter and dry hoppy into a crisp hoppy finish.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
AROMA: citrus, floral, cereal, grapefruit
APPEARANCE: golden, clear, minimal head,
TASTE: light sweetness, medium sourness, lightly bitter,
PALATE: light body, sticky, soft carbonation, astringent
OVERALL: uninspiring, bit too much on the grapefruit
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Euston Tap, London. A golden/amber coloured pour with a small white head. Malty, hoppy aroma. Tastes malty, fruity, spice. It is OK.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask in Euston Tap incorrectly listed as IPA. Pours golden with a touch of orange, nose is very grainy malt, bit of citrous hop. Taste is grainy cereal malt, and fruit citrous notes.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Bert’s Bar, Edinburgh. Pours a cloudy golden with some head, which mostly goes. The nose has citrus, pine and then pine resin on the end. The taste has green vegetables, probably runner-bean. The palate is medium bodied and textured with a nice clean finish. Overal, a really tasty and sessionable ale.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned at The Kings Head, Melrose, Scottish Borders. Brownish amber with white head. Bready malts to the fore with some background leafy hop notes. There is a pine leaf twang. Reasonable.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask as Scottish Joker IPA at Map Room. Pours a quite bright copper with a frothy soap bubble head. Nose is spicy hops, light citrus and some musty malts. On taste, it is crisp and pretty clean. Spicy hops are very prominent with some citrus in the back end. Full bready malts. Pretty solid bitter, really.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours golden amber with a white head. Flowery aroma with pale malts. Well balanced flavor, with light floral and citric hops on a lightly sweet, pale malty base. Not bad.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask, listed as an IPA but given the the taste it must be a bitter. Pours a still bodied rustic copper with a trace white lacing. Bitter and drying hop tones, pine, and slight grapefruit hints. A trace of wet wood an d hint of citrus. Ok.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
[cask at Sheep’s Heid Inn, Edinburgh] Lovely looking pint, burnished gold colour with a sparkler head of about a centimetre depth. Aromas of citrus, grass from the hops, malt and a little spice. Very drinkable, bitter citrus at first, with a sweet malt component before a lovely dry aftertaste with a piney finish. I think I caught a great pint, no question. Really good stuff – much more rounded taste than the bottled Joker (which is still very nice) [10102010]
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