7.1

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

Bottle from Eltham Wines. Spicy sweet aromas, spot of candied peel, ginger. Taste is honey,ginger, more candied peel. Spicy sweet with a lasting hoppy bite.

7.4

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

Bottle at home. Light pour but still a good head. Bitter nose and a really complex and appealing flavour. Malt and hops, followed by the richness and tang of the oats. Perhaps a bit too rich for more than one????

22/02/2002. ROYAL OAK, 44 Tabard Street, LONDON, SE1, England (HARVEYS)

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from the brewery shop in Lewes. Smooth and round malty beginning. Fresh smooth, nice with hints of grain. Not too sweetish, round with a nice and intense bitterness. The Golden Ale aromatic is smooth, mild grainy sweetish in the aftertaste. Nice.

6.6

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

Bottle from Harvey’s online. Appearance - golden with nice lace. Nose - pungent citrus, maybe getting towards tamarind. Taste - loads of green herby notes Palate - medium bodied or so. Creamy and fairly fresh on the finish. Overall - it’s not bad, it’s not good, it has more character than plain water.

6

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

Bottle at ash’s. Pours clear amber, nose is sweet toffee, citrus, floral, toffee, taste is dry, sweet, toffee, floral.

6.5

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

Cask at the Market Porter. It pours clear golden-amber with a decent off-white head. The nose is earthy, dough, mild Harvey’s sulphur, biscuit and straw. The taste is crisp, bitter-sweet, biscuit malt base, earth, grassy, straw, floral, pepper and a touch of honey with a dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation.a big step up from the bottled version. Solid Harvey’s action.

5.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from the Harvey’s bottle shop. It pours clear golden with a small white head. The nose is toasty, grainy, buttered cheap white bread and straw. The taste is crisp, lightly bitter, straw, floral, sweet dough, pale grain, earth and light lemon rind with a dry finish. Light-medium body and average carbonation. Pretty basic stuff. Not bad, just plain. One of my least favourite from Harvey’s.

5.2

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

Cask @ the Wharf, Aalborg. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. 130414

5.8

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

cask@Charlies, Copenhagen - golden pour small to medium white head. Aroma and taste is grassy, straw slight floral hoppy tones, lemony, sweet malty. Ok.