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3948
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Brewed by WJ King
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Horsham, England

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RATINGS: 16   MEAN: 2.99/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.92   EST. CALORIES: 117   ABV: 3.9%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Cask; Regular.
This golden, pale blonde ale has a distinctive hoppy aroma derived from use of Celeia hops late in the copper. The scents are reminiscent of fields of grass freshened by a short shower on a sunny summer’s day. The taste is sharply hoppy and beautifully stimulates the underside edges of your tongue. There’s the merest hint of malt to complement the hops. The aftertaste develops the hops further with an increasing dryness and straw bitterness to finish.


rosenbergh's rating

2.6
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
rosenbergh (4672) - Helsinki, - JUN 2, 2012
Cask at the O’Connell’s, Tampere, Finland.
Cloudy yellow colour with no head. Mild aroma with notes of fruitiness and grainy maltiness. Flavour is mild hops with touch of bitterness and maltiness. Simple Blond Ale.


most recent ratings

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
harrisoni (10945) - Ashford, Kent, ENGLAND - APR 26, 2013
Cask gravity at Tenterden BF 2012. Standard blonde ale. Nettle leafy and fairly decent.

2.4
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
DruncanVeasey (6116) - NUNEATON, Blue Square Premier, Warwickshire, ENGLAND - AUG 3, 2012
Cask handpull with ’The Legion’ tapping on the windows, The Crown, Nuneaton, 28/07/12. Pale straw with a slim white cap. Vinegared nose. Sour lambic, lemon wheatiness and crab apple. Farmyard streaks. Unintentionally Belgian.

2.9
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
imdownthepub (8492) - Banbury, Oxfordshire, ENGLAND - MAY 31, 2012
Cask conditioned at A Wetherspoons. Hazy gold with slight head. This had a really perfumey aroma which led directly into the beer, flowery, rose petal, concubine type note. Some maltiness, bready, not in the greatest condition, but drinkable.

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
thepegjett (1262) - Cambridge (via Winnipeg), Cambridgeshire, ENGLAND - MAY 22, 2012
Light musty and floral hop. Dry bitterness and thin. Decent, but not special.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 17/20
BrewBoxer (1232) - New York, New York, USA - JAN 1, 2012
bottle. Golden brown. Light, crisp and creamy. Really easy drinking and decent but Mott the greatest

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
anders37 (12756) - Malmö, SWEDEN - SEP 13, 2011
Cask £ Charlies Bar, Copenhagen. Pours a clear pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grainy aroma. Fruity malty grainy salty mineral flavor. Has a sweetish fruity malty grainy mineral finish.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
Ethereal (2399) - Los Angeles, California, USA - AUG 9, 2011
Cask at the Earth & Stars, Brighton, 16th Dec 2010. Bright gold, small lacy head. Dry, dusty hop nose. Light, refreshing palate. Really drinkable. Good start for Ian Burgess at WJ King. Lovely golden ale. Wrong day for it though, was wet and gloomy in Brighton.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
oh6gdx (18576) - Vasa, FINLAND - JUL 28, 2011
Cask@Market Porter, London. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, mild earthy as well as slightly malty. Flavour is berries, some fruits and quite bitter notes as well.

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
joergen (17353) - Frederiksberg, DENMARK - JUL 2, 2011
Cask at Charlies. Clear golden coloured with a medium sized white head. Fruity aroma of grass and hops. Fruity flavour of grass and hops. Hoppy fnish.


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