Batemans Summer Swallow

Summer Swallow
(has 2 batches)

 

Batemans in Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Golden / Blonde Ale Summer
Score
5.85
ABV: 3.9% IBU: - Ticks (all batches): 38
Available August

A summery beer that breezes in just like the migrating swallows. It’s made with lager malts giving it a light body, while Cascade, Chinook and Bramling Cross hops are added late in the brewing process for a lovely hint of lemon. A crisp, dry, refreshing pale ale, deserving of a proper summer’s day.
 

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4.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Cask (handpump) @ The Masque Haunt (JDW), London EC1, England.Clear medium orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, buttery, chlorine notes, pepper notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. (030808)
Tried from Cask on 06 Oct 2008 at 05:02

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottled@Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is wooden hops, some hints of flowery and fruity hops as well as some mild caramel and earth. Flavour is quite much the same, but the wooden bitteryness is a bit stronger.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Oct 2008 at 00:17

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
bottle, Costcutter Newton Abbot. Clear copper colour, mid-sized head. Malty nose. Light-bodied. Some nice flavours of caramel and malt, dry hoppy touch in the finish. A refreshing summer beer.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Sep 2008 at 09:59

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask. Slightly buttery aroma. Hazy golden colour. Almost no head. The flavour is a lot better than the aroma, subtle, but OK, dusty.
Tried from Cask on 24 Aug 2008 at 16:44

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask. Flavour and aroma are both fruity and dry sour wood. Flavour is mainly sour wood with slight hints of cookies and caramel. Aftertaste is mainly bitter and wooden.
Tried from Cask on 05 Aug 2008 at 03:06

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask, 3 Guineas, Reading. Golden colour with a thin wee head. Slightly grassy aroma. Moderate bitterness. Citrus notes in the flavour. Inoffensive and drinkable but nothing to go oowee about.
Tried from Cask on 04 Aug 2008 at 14:31

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Clear golden with tiny white head. Sweet and fruity aroma with discrete hoppy and caramel notes. Sweet flavor with fruity, caramel and hoppy notes leading it to a bitter finish.
Tried on 03 Aug 2008 at 12:12

4.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
Bottle for £1 from ASDA. Another unimpressive pasteurised effort from Batemans. Amber coloured with an off-white head. Caramel aroma with some tired hops. The flavour was also very sweet with some synthetic vanilla undertones. Poor.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Oct 2007 at 11:16

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask @ The Gatehouse,JDW, Highgate. Pours a clear pale yellow color with a small white head. Sweeet malty fruity citrus aroma. Sweet malty fruity flavor with some citrus hints. Sweet malty finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried from Cask on 22 Aug 2007 at 00:21

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cask handpull at County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Gold/copper colour with lasting thin beige head. Some toffee on aroma. Some herby hop. Decent condition. Quite zingy on the finish. The finish is pretty good. It is ok. Hop is good but aroma is not great.
Tried from Cask on 20 Aug 2007 at 06:28