Humalane, linnaseline, kuiv, tsitrus. Ok, eila olevat parem olnud.

Barley, grainy, mild hops, grapefruit skin

(Cask, at Black Door, 20230527) The beer poured golden and nearly clear. Its head was medium sized, white and it lasted long. Aroma had grass, herbalness and fruitiness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, grass, grain, pine, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was hoppy and bitter. A tasty hoppy brew with good bitter finish.

Cask at Hops, Crewe. Pours a hazy golden yellow with a small frothy off-white head and good lacing. There’s mango in the aroma plus a hint of caramel. In the mouth it has floral hops to the fore and a concoction of various fruits, mango, kiwi, melon and traces of lemon and grapefruit. The finish is slightly dry and bitter. It’s quite reasonable.

Keg at TFRNV, Bristol Feb 2016. Pours clear pale golden blonde beer with an off white cap. Aroma: bread, melon, lime zest, grass, hay. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, bright, clean, dry, apple, pear, gooseberries, lime, melon. Medium body with soft carbonation. Nice expression of the Galaxy hop.

Golden ale hopped with Australia's superstar Galaxy, from these pioneers of modern craft brewing in England. Intricately cobweb-lacing, off-white, thick but opening, irregularly mousy head on a completely crystal clear, pale golden blonde beer with fierce strings of sparkling rising up from the bottom. Aroma of freshly cut green apples, halfripe green kiwi, damp hay, green melon, white bread crumbs, tulips, freshly cut woodsorrel leaves, lime peel, raw 'courgette', parsley, soggy breakfast cereals. Clean but crisp, fruity onset, hinting at green apple, hard pear and a dash of unripe banana, fizzy and minerally carbonation adding further crispness, slick mouthfeel; sweetish white-bready maltiness, aromatized by the Galaxy with retronasal aspects of crushed green gooseberries, lime and green melon but also bittered by a spicy, eventually slightly rooty bitterness. The rounded, simple but rather full-bodied malt sweetishness comes through in the end, but the Galaxy sure gets its moment to shine. Bright, crisp and easily drinkable golden ale, very British indeed but with the Australian twist performing well, both in terms of aroma and bitterness. Quenching and likeable enough.

33cl bottle, local shop. Poured golden color with a thin white head. Citrusy hoppy nose, floral notes. Light to medium bodied. Malts, citrus and light bitterness.

Nw. Alcest

330ml bottle. Smooth, slightly crisp and herbal with some grassy hops, hints of sweetish malts and earthiness. Okay.