50cl bottle from ABCBeers. Thin white head. Clear golden blond pour. Slightly hoppy finish.

4.3% ABV Bottle, best before 26 Sept 2010, drank and reviewed 10 Aug 2010. This beer was named the CAMRA Champion Beer of Great Britain last week (in cask form, at the Great British Beer Festival). My 500ml brown bottle was poured into an ’Abbot Ale’ glass tankard. As the name suggests, it is pale in colour, a pale blonde in fact, almost lager like with its snow white head on top. The head tried to stay and it left a bit of lacing as the beer level sank. The aroma lets you know it is an ale though, far to many hop esters for it to be a pilsner/lager. The taste is also more hop than malts or anything else. The blend is pleasant, the hop bitterness not being allowed complete control of the flavours. The true hop bitterness comes as the mouth dries. Refreshing and easy to drink, but it wouldn’t have got my vote as the Best of Britain.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Castle Rock Harvest Pale (Cask) (by Castle Rock Brewery):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

2/IV/2012 - on cask @ Edgar Wallace (London) - BB: n/a (2012-313)

Clear yellow to blond beer, small creamy white head, pretty stable, adhesive leaving a nice lacing. Aroma: some exotic fruits, pineapple and passion fruits, bit yeasty, hay. MF: no carbon, medium to full body. Taste: little fruity in the start, peaches, citrus, bit grassy, hoppy bitterness. Aftertaste: yeasty, barnyard notes, somewhat fruity, dry bitter ending. Not bad, the American hops are giving it some character.

Bright blond colour. Strong citrus hop aroma. Zesty flavour with an abundance of hop. Texture quite thin and watery.

Slightly hazy golden straw with white head. Nice floral aroma. Light body, medium carbonation. Good malty taste for light beer and decent hop bitterness in finish. Overall a nice refreshing beer.

14th July 2011
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Light haze on this pale gold beer. Big white head. Light semi dry palate. Some nice mild fine carbonation. Mild hops, a little orange and grapefruit with a trace of sherbet. Whisper of sulphur. Light dry finish. Mildly bitter aftertaste. An ok refreshing beer.

Bottled (thanks fonefan). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is citrus, grass, crisp maltyness as well as some mild grainyness. Flavour is grassy, citrus fruity with some mild floral notes as well. Pleasant bittery finish. Bready, fruity and floral in the aftertaste.

Cask @ Bon Accord. Light golden colour, white head. Aroma is hoppy and malty, bit of bread. Flavour is malty, fairly hoppy, biscuit. Dry finish. Medium body. Superbly drinkable.