Wooden Hand Cornish Gribben

Brewed by Wooden Hand
Style: Bitter
Truro, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask @ O’Connells. Clear yellow, medium white head. Slight aroma of hay. Watery palate, slightly sweet flavor of grass.

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120413. Tap at O’Connell’s, Tampere. Pours slight hazy golden with a small head. Aroma crystal malts. low palate.

Cask @ O’Connel’s, Tampere.
Pours clear golden color with small head. Aroma of hay, mild fruits and malts. Flavour is the same with some mild toffee and goose berry notes. Below average, quite stuffy brew.
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Cask (handpump) @ Wenlock Arms, 26 Wenlock Road, London, Greater London, England N1 7TA.

Clear medium orange yellow colour with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, grass, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120806]

50cl bottle from a Tesco’s in Salisbury. Amber with a thin cream head; malty aroma with a touch of orange zest; over-pasteurised jammy malt flavour; and a dry, asstingent, finish. Rather mundane.

1/2 at ’Spoons Gateshead. Hazy Gold disappating white head. Minimal aroma. Some honey flavour, but too watery to be interesting. Bitter finish. Disappointing

Cask at JDW Arthur Robertson; clear dark amber pour, white head, fruity aroma, slight fruit in the taste and malt.

Cask conditioned handpump Saracens Head Daventry 18/10/12. An amber coloured beer with a whitish coloured head and lacing. A dull plain aroma leads to a fruity slightly tart start in the mouth with a bitter finish. It’s passable in the mouth; no more.

Hand-pulled pint in the Wolverhampton Wetherspoons on 6th Oct 2012. The beer is a thin looking clear golden colour, the white head also thin, but it did leave some good lacing: so the condition of the beer was fine. I’ve struggled with beers from Wooden Hand in the past but thought I’d give them another go: maybe their beers don’t travel too well? This one was bland as well though: floral hop and mild biscuity malt on the nose, with a fruit orchard feel to the taste, but add some metallic hints and a dry hop finish, I almost couldn’t finish my pint (but I manfully saw the liquid off). Body depth was weak and watery, this isn’t a wholesome brew or even a well balanced tipple, it lacks ’umph’. Doubt I’ll be having another beer from these boys.

500ml bottle - Hazy golden colour, white head. Nose is light malted, a bit doughy. Flavour is malty, fruit, some bread. Slightly dry finish.A bit thin and watery on the palate.