5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask at Hamilton Hall. As Red Ale. Pours amber with a lasting creamy off-white head. Aroma of hop, fruit, malt and veg. Moderate sweetness, medium bitterness. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle 500 ml. Amber coor. Aroma: malt, caramel, slightly dried fruit, raisins, nuts, a little hop flowers. Taste: light acidity, caramel, malt, bread, a little fruit, soft hop bitterness

6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Very dense & fine, lightly amberish tinted head, fast dwindling over foxy copper beer. Caramel, wet dog, maltcookies, sweat. Lightly bitterish caramel, sweetness arriving as an aftertought, before taking over; Very malty brew, in the end. Parsley, bit leafy, dry cookies. Very light body, spritzy carbonation. Aftertaste acquires some marzipan flavour. Too little, too late. The Smithwicks spectre roams even the craft segment.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

500ml bottle. Pours orange-red with a medium-sized off-white head. Aroma is red berries, caramel, biscuit. Sweet and malty flavour.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Draft @ Moeder Lambic Original, Irish Craft Beer #1, shared with 77ships. Cuivré, col crémeux blanc. Arôme au nez fienmetn houblonné typiquement anglais dans l’approche rappelant l’EKG, petit rétro malté avec une note ’bready’. Palais est léger, pâle et Otter? pils, houblonné modéré ajoutant une fine amertume assez anglais. Levure reste sur la fin avec une petite fraicheur citronnée. Reste très classique.

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft glass shared with Sebletitje @ Moeder Lambiek Original. Dark orange, little white head. Nose is malty herbal, muted rustic pine, farmland, more herbal than pine forward. Taste big dull old apple, almost cardboard-like, bland slab of cooked apple, sugar, paper, bland malts,… milky body on top, stale cooked apple. Boring at best, big almost oxidized apple sweetness profile doesn’t do much for me. Pass.

7

Irish Beer Weekend

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask @ Cross Keys, York. Golden with a thin head. Has a hoppy-dry tropical fruit aroma and taste. Called Bru Red when I had it.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask @ Bree Louise. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and fruity. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 250316