04/06/2016. SQUARE BOTTLE, 78-92 Foregate Street, CHESTER, Cheshire, England (WETHERSPOONS)

6.5

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

Pint at the Red Lion jdw. Medium creamy beige head. Clear amber pour. Light bitterness and coffee

4.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

On cask at the Caley Picture House. Appearance - deep amber with decent lacing. Nose - toffee and biscuit but underlying sour note. Taste - the sour note is still there and the notes on top are not particularly fresh. Palate - close to medium bodied with a tangy off note that continues through the finish. Overall - this one is not as the brewer intended. Will retry at another time.

5.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Cask at the Caley Picture House. Pours clear dark amber with a thin white head. Aromas of light sour plums, definite acetic note. Taste is light sour too. This might have been on too long?

4.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Cask @ Montgomery’s Tower, Shrewsbury. Pours clear amber, small white head. Aroma brings light caramel malt. Taste is grainy with faint caramel and a mirage like nuttiness.

5.5

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

Cask at Hamilton Hall by London Liverpool St Station. Pours chestnut brown with a small tan colour head. Mild aroma of chocolate, roasted malt and dark fruit. Medium sweetness, light bitterness with very light sourness. Light body, sticky texture, soft carbonation. Finish has a light roasting, chocolate and sour fruit edge. A pint which grew on me but wasn’t great tbh.

6.3

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

Cask (gravity) @ Nottingham Robin Hood Beer Festival (2014), Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EL. [ As Lymestone Stonefish Mild ].Clear medium amber orange color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, pale malt, light to moderate hoppy, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, fruity, citrus, pale malt, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20141010]

6.8

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

Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a clear dark amber with a bubbly broken white head. The aroma is light creamy malt, light hop. The flavour is light bitter with a smooth, light nutty malt, light wooidy hop bitter palate. Light bodied with soft carbonation. Looks like a bitter and tastes a little like a brown ale. A good session beer.

6.5

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

Hand-pulled half-pint on 1st May 2014 at a beer festival in The Crown Inn, Oakengates: 34 hand-pulls to choose from, this was my first of the day. Clear amber body pour, with no head to speak of. Fruity and malty in both the nose and taste, an understated treacle/molasses sweetness throughout with just enough hop content to prevent the beer being overly sweet. Another fine beer my these guys.