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

Cask (gravity) @ #RHBCF2018 🧙‍🍻🇬🇧 [ The 11th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival (The 43th. Nottingham CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival) ], The Motorpoint Arena, Bolero Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1LA.

[ As Belvoir Star - Bitter ].
ABV: 3.9%. Clear medium yellow - orange amber colour with a small to average, frothy and open, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, caramel, sweet malt, honey - sugary. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, honey, bread, pale malt - caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20181018]
5-3-5-3-11

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

Cask @ Nottingham Beerfestival. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are caramel, fruits, flowers and hops. Sweet fruity finish.

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

Cask @ Nottingham Beer and Cider Festival. Clear amber with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and light hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 181018

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Half-pint at the 2014 Lincoln beer festival: based on the old ’Shipstones Bitter’ according to the CAMRA notes at the festival. Anyway it pours a light amber with a white collar. I found it a bit bland and uninteresting, mild blend of nothingness really. Not something I could recommend, just too watery in nature.

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

Cask gravity at GBBF 2007. Copper, lasting beige head. Actually decent session bitter. Little bit of toffee, some decent hop on end. Fine.

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

Cask, Gravity at the oepning of Merton playground Sat 21st October 2006. Traditional in colour and also traditional in style. Poured amber in colour, with very little head. This beer was a very decent session bitter, nice bitter bite, good hop charactistics, little bit fruity and dry, nothing fancy just a very decent, dependable lower abv beer.

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

[Cask at GBBF] Sweetish with some resiny hops and lightly raisiny malt character. Light bodied with light sparkling mouthfeel and notes of grass. An easy going pleasant mild with medium bitterness.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On cask NERAX 4/28/2005
Copper-amber color with a well-retained white head. Cherries, dry balsa wood, crème liqueur, toffee aroma (noticeable diacetyl). Flavor begins with some diacetyl as well, with more fruity cherries, vanilla and earrthy, lightly bitter hops on the finish. Good medium-full body. Too much diacetyl, as Dan Shelton points out, but I guess I havent overdosed on diacetyl yet, at this point in my drinking career and so I still enjoyed it.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

[Cask at Volunteers Arms, GBBF, 2004] An amber beer with a white head. The aroma is of diacethyl, oranges, and peach. The flavor is cask flat, with lots of hops, but also diacethyl, leading to a dry end.