Culture Shock

(2017 London) 1/2 Pint Cask @ Old Coffee House. Clear golden, creamy white soapy bubbles. Nose is weird, vanilla? Marzipan, almond, fermenting white grapes. Taste is watery, fermenting white grapes, oddly spoiled with some almond. Bizarre & not quite there. Watery.

Cask. Shakespeare’s, Sheffield. Clear gold. Bubbly, sticky, white head. Nose has orange marmalade. Jammy hop. Sticky sweet malts. Some candied jelly sweets. Taste is sweet and jammy, with some stewed hop bitterness. Mouthfeel is a bit heavy and sticky. Stewed hop bitter finish. Hard work.

Cask at the OCH, 25/05/17. Clear golden with a decent off White cap. Nose is biscuit, bubblegum, caramel, sweet porridge. Taste comprises caramel, vanilla, cheesecake base, fruit esters, sweet malts, hint of tropical fruits. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Decent enough Cask offering.

Cask at Ye Olde Coffee House - London. Pours clear, shiny gold with a creamy, white head. Ample gooey pine in the aroma, ripe citrus, bready malts. Medium sweet flavour with lots of oily hops, light bitter pine, a little cat pee, papaya. Medium bodied, oily, with fine carbonation. Resinous and lightly warming in the finish, with more gooey pine, mellow bitterness, ripe and chewy tropical fruits. There’s a certain raw hop intensity here, which would be nice if the condition could lift it more. Overall, not bad.

Cask at Old Coffee House. It pours hazy golden with a small white head. The aroma is sweet, sticky, oily, malt - driven, stone fruits, white grape, plum, white bread and biscuit. The taste is bitter - sweet, increasing bitterness throughout, biscuit, bread, oily, sweet stone fruits, gooseberry, melon, honey, tannin, spice and some alcohol sting with a drying finish. Medium body, fine carbonation and oily mouth - feel. A bit heavy and oily. Fair.