2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
UPDATED: AUG 12, 2009 Cask at Peterborough BF ’07. Amber with a small white head. Faint hop aroma. Rather a dull, flat taste; bit of cardboard, perhaps some fruit. Disappointing. It came from the Woodfordes bar so condition should have been good. 11.8.09 Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Gold. Grassy and floral hop aroma. Pleasant citric and biscuit taste. Some bitterness. Quite good. Rated: 6,3,7,4,11: 3.1
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught (Carlton Arms, Cambridge)
Light colour, no head. Light malty aroma, light bitter taste, actually lemony citrus. VBery summery.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Dog and Duck. The evening was saved from total boredom when they finally put this on.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned @ Humble Plumb, Soton. Fruity hops and enough biscuity sweetness to leave a mild bittersweet finish. Not bad.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Kenilworth Edinburgh ... my first visit there ... quite nice ... Golden orange ... hoppy fruitybitter ... touch of a hop common in beers named gold (wish i knew what) citrus hop .
1.6 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Bottle. Boring. very thin, sweet and grainy. There are loads of lagers i’ve had that are so much better than this. This was dull. Woodforde’s can do better.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, Turf Tavern, Oxford. This was one very pretty pint, party because I snatched the glass away from the ever-attentive Turf staff member pulling the pint before he was able to top up my glass and ruin all the lovely head. Ha! Faster than you this time! Warm copper, nice airy white layer of head that lingers inticingly all the way down the glass. Ah foam. That which make my pints pretty, provides an interface to facilitate aroma dispersal, and proves the liveliness of the cask. Why are you treated with such contempt here in the south? Anyway. Fresh, lightly tart candy hop aroma, a bit of toasted corn, honeysuckle. Candy hop flavor, nice toasty malt backbone. Nothing overly fancy about this pint, but served in good nick and nice all around.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A mid golden orange coloured beer with a thickish white head. A slightly weak hopy nose, some citrus fruit, with a hint of malt in the background. The taste is bitter, dry and hoppy, a little citrusy and floral, but nothing distinctive, then a woody malt flavour in the finish add to the dryness. (Cask - 2007 Cambridge Beer Festival).
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