6.5

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

Cask at Clockwork. It pours clear amber with a small white head. The nose is toasty, grain, bread, stone fruit and cereal. The taste is bitter, citrus, grainy, stone fruit, caramel, grapefruit skin and florals with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Pretty quaffable stuff.

5.9

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Very hazy, light floral hop character, with slightly biscuity malt character like warm bread. Decent if a little dull.

5.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

500ml bottle at home. Clear amber pour, thin, quickly passing white head. Big bubbles. Aromas are malty, not much else, just malty biscuits. Taste has a little bitterness, but mostly just malty sweetness. Didn’t really like it.

6

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

Bottle. Amber colour with a creamy off-white head with good duration and nice lacing. Aroma is earthy with floral hops. Flavor is light bittery, some floral notes, very light caramel and toasted malts. Dry final with a light bitterness.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Fizzy golden beer with a thick foamy head. Light hoppy aroma. Sharp, bitter flavour of hop and malt with a very dry finish. Not bad but unmemorable.

5.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Cask @ Golden Rule, Polwarth 040912
Amber, clear, dense white head, good head retention and some lacing
Aroma - Apricot, fruity malts, cereal, slight sourness
Taste as aroma, fruity apricot golden malts, light honey, soft cereal
Palate - thin to medium body, bit oily. Finish as main flavour again with slight metaliic linger
Overall - Bog standard bitter

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle, gift from Mum. Hazy, golden body with a thin white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of peach, herbs and earth. Flavour of earth, honey and pear. Thin body with a slick texture. Light fizz. A solid, reliable beer.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Tall brown 500ml bottle: best before 31 Oct 2012, poured into my Abbot Ale glass tankard early Mar 2012. Pale amber, light copper in colour, bright and clean looking. The head looked good for 20 seconds, it then started to shrink and within a minute it has retreated to a collar and wispy covering: pity. The aroma was a heady mix of yeasts and hops with a mild malty undertone. The taste leans towards hops, especially initially. The malted wheat and barley appear mid-mouthfull, preventing the hop bitterness completely taking over the flavours. Different and pleasant.

6.5

18/8/2011. Cask at Isaacs on the Quay Beer Festival, Ipswich.

6.1

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

Bottle. Amber coloured with a slight, off-white head. Orange fruit and caramel aroma. Flavour of sweet biscuit malts, summer fruits and grassy hops leading to a short, bitter finish. Ok, but not memorable.