2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20Cask (gravity) @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.
Clear medium yellow color with virtually none head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, fruity, old fruit, buttery notes. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. (080808)
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
light body, flat,medium sweetness, just a very standard english ale, not as exciting as many of their other offerings
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Umm, me likey! Good old fashioned musty dry hay-barn aroma. Soft mouth feel. Great leafy hop with definite peperyness on the finish. Nice hints of tropical fruit. Top notch beer.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask by handpump at Haymarket Bar, Edinburgh - clear golden, medium off-white head, mild pale malty aroma, minimal lacing, cereal, honey flavour, grainy texture, moderate bitter finish
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours a straw yellow gold with a very very slight haze. Thin white, but steady head. Nose is lemony and grassy with a hint of lime. Taste is slightly tart, but quite light on taste overall. There’s something a bit "paracetamol" about it. There’s a nice pleasant bitter finish, without being overpowering. Nice enough.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Handpull at The George (Strand). Slightly hazy gold with a smallish diminishing white frothy head. Minimal aroma - slightly sweet sour grain mostly. Taste is gassy and a little dishwatery - no alcohol - cleaner as it warms. Very watery and still, finishes quick, dry and a little sour. Meh. Updated - rated too quickly; by the end of the glass it was just a bit sour, decidedly grassy - not bad at all.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle. Clear golden colour with small, firm, frothy, white head. Grainy aroma with a minimally spicy hay note. Taste is a bit flat, minimally sweet malty and grainy, later with a light and fresh minimally fruity touch, decent hay and bitter hop overtone.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Lattice House, King’s Lynn
Hazy golden color, creamy head. The aroma is light, with biscuity trace, some diacetyl. Smooth mouthfeel, round too, not as light as expected, with decent malt flavor, strong bitterness, very light lemony trace.
Maybe not very fresh, but pleasant.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Jan 2008: from BA. Brown pint bottle, best before end of June 2008.
Very pale for an English bitter and slightly cloudy, it isn’t bottle conditioned but it came out very lively in deed. A huge white head appeared and wouldn’t leave my vase shaped ’Old Speckled Hen pint glass’, I could only pour in about one third of the bottle first time.
Very floral and gingery, but in a nice way.
This is a very fine beer, it has that rare ability to please me in all aspects of its taste. Bitter, sharp and refreshing, but in the correct understated way an English bitter should. The hop, barley, yeast attributes all combine to produce an almost perfect pint.
One of the best British beers from a bottle I’ve had for long, long time.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
(Cask at Black Door, 20120228) The beer poured golden and clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had white bread, yeast and hops. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were hops, mild sourness, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was bitter. Unbalanced and acrid.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@Black Door
Pale yellow color, small but steady white head. Aroma of citrus and birch leaves. Light bodied. Citrus, woody maltyness. Dry, zesty finish. Quite standard English golden ale.
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