Tempest
Oakham Ales in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England 🏴
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular|
Score
7.10
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A slow and cool fermentation helps release delicate fruity aromatics and floral, herbal and tangerine notes before a clean lemon finish in this specially brewed Fest Bier.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask handpull at The New Inn Canterbury. Clear amber colour lasting off white head. Some malt sweetness. A little toffee. Then its hoppy. Some citrus flavours. Some stone fruit. I am here for a session and would happily drink this all afternoon. Good. Moderate bitterness on the finish
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Apr 2026
at 12:18
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Sampled from the cask at The Mossy Well. Pours a clear golden orange with a white head. Aroma of bitter orange marmalade and malts. Taste is dominated by a bitter orange flavour with notes of grass and bitter herbs. Not really a lager or a festbier. More like an IPA with New World hops. It has a long, bitter, fruity finish. Quite drinkable actually.
Tried
from Cask
at
Mossy Well (JDW)
on 20 Mar 2026
at 18:04
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8.5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours dark orange brown with a medium head. Aroma is sticky caramel and marmalade. Taste has sweet toffee, orange marmalade and sticky hop oils.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Oct 2025
at 18:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Cask at the St Albans beer festival 2025. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a lasting loose white head. Aroma is semi sweet, stewed fruit, apple, nutty custard, semi sweet, jammy fruits. Flavour is composed of nutty malts, grass. Orange rind, vanilla, light tang little flabby, apple,. Palate is semi sweet, oily hops, chewy, decent cask condition. Hoppy.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2025
at 15:01
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravity cask at the 28th St Albans Beer Festival, 26/09/25.
Golden blonde topped with an off white cap.
Nose is pale malts, orange peel, melon, straw.
Taste comprises light bready notes, melon, straw, herb, biscuit, orange peel.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close splashed with mellow hop bitterness.
Another tidy cask pale from Oakham but not really getting 'fest bier' from it ... largely melds into a typical hoppy Oakham pale ... no bad thing but not really what was advertised!
Golden blonde topped with an off white cap.
Nose is pale malts, orange peel, melon, straw.
Taste comprises light bready notes, melon, straw, herb, biscuit, orange peel.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close splashed with mellow hop bitterness.
Another tidy cask pale from Oakham but not really getting 'fest bier' from it ... largely melds into a typical hoppy Oakham pale ... no bad thing but not really what was advertised!
Tried
on 26 Sep 2025
at 12:22