Level Up: Level 1: Citra and Simcoe
Elusive Brewing in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴
Amber / Red Ale - American Series Out of Production|
Score
6.64
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
440ml can – Pours a slightly hazy amber colour with a small loose and frothy beige head. The aroma is hoppy, orange jam, grapefruit and resiny pine. A moderately sweet and fruity taste, sweet malts, caramel, jammy citrus fruit flavours with a drying fruity bitterness in the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can ordered from South Down Cellars, Haywards Heath. Aroma had warm earthy spice over restrained stone fruit. Hazy medium brown. Foamy light beige head. Medium bitter with a spicy edge and earthiness as per the aroma. Citrus sour edge which gradually gains some prominence. Medium bodied. Verging on creamy. Flat-soft carbonation. Long somewhat astringent finish. Enjoyable spicy and citrusy stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (gravity) @ [ EBF24 2016 ], 24th Egham Beer Festival, Egham United Services Club (EUSC), 111 Spring Rise, Egham, Surrey, England TW20 9PE. [ As Elusive Level Up Level 1: Citra and Simcoe ].Unclear medium amber colour with a average, frothy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale malt, riped fruit, moderate hoppy, citrus, orange. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a average to long duration, pale malt, caramel, citrus, orange, fruity hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20160804] 7-3-7-3-13
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask, on gravity at Maidenhead Beer Festival 28/7/2016. Hazy amber in colour, with a slight, white, head. Citrus hops, rich malts, a whiff of chocolate, some tangerine fruit and a dryish finish. Fine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at EBF 24, 04/08/16. Hazed amber with a well presented light beige cap of bubbles. Nose is light pine needle, bitter orange, straw, red grapefruit. Taste comprises orange pith, light caramel drool, biscuit, straw, pine. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, earthy hop bitterness in the close. Solid hoppy amber.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Peterborough beer festival 27/08/2016. A dark orange amber coloured pour with a a loose halo of beige head. Aroma is nice fresh jammy citrus, sticky pine resin, jammy fruits. Flavour is composed of nutty malts, jammy fruit, amber malts, low pine needles. Palate is semi sweet slightly grainy good condition. Good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask gravity @ 24th Egham Beer Festival. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel hoppy citrus aroma. Fruity malty citrus hoppy caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy caramel finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the Price Arthur (JDW), Fleet. A hazy pale chestnut colour with a loose beige head; aroma of berry fruit with some rye-like spice; a tart, berry fruit taste, with more rye; then a sweetish caramel finish with a clean crisp bitterness. Enjoyable.
