03/12/2015. PUNCH BOWL, 5-9 Blossom Street, YORK, North Yorkshire, England (WETHERSPOONS)

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

Cask (handpump) @ Liberty Bounds (JDW), 15 Trinity Square, Tower Hill, Greater London, England EC3N 4AA. [ As Hook Norton / Birrificio del Ducato A.F.O. ].Clear medium orange amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, toasted, caramel, fruity malt, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, malt and hops bitter, pale malt, sweet malt, medium dry, licorice hops bitter notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20151204] 6-3-7-3-14

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

Cask @ Cuthbert Brodrick, Leeds. Slightly hazy copper-amber with a thin head. Some hops with a malty, and gently sweet character. Has a bitterness.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Cask at the Tuesday bell lisburn, hazed caramel, amber coloured pour with a lasting off white creamy head. Aroma is vinegar and tangy apples, sour citrus. Flavour is sour tangy apple, really bad condition, zesty lemon rind, biscuit, some caramel. Palate is tangy, lowish carbonation, slight acid. Probably send this back.

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

Cask @ The Forest House JDW, Chester [011215]
Amber, slight haze, dense head, soft lacing
Aroma of soft sweet fruits
Taste of soft fruits, caramel, touch of yeast ester, easy going for abv
Palate - Medium body, soft sweet, slight bitterness. Finish as main flavour.
Overall - OK, but not a lot going on for the abv

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

On tap at the Royal Hop Pole, JDW Tewkesbury. Amber colour with an off white head. Aroma is sweet caramel malt, bread dough and berries. Taste is sweet.

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

Cask at the William Robert Loosley (JDW), High Wycombe. Murky orangey-amber with an off-white head. Rather flat. Fruity up front-orange and over-ripe red apple. Really quite sweet. Alcohol is increasingly evident. Almost no bitterness or anything to balance it. Not very good.

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

Cask at the foot of the walk... Copper... Small tan head.. Soft sweet metalic toffee fruit malt nose.. Soft sweet malts.. Long metalic toffee fruit.. Soft biscuit metalic malts

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

Cask ale at JDWs George in Croydon. Hazy apricot coloured body. Naked surface. Dotted spots on the glass. Malt-fruity nose, mid-sweet. Mixed taste of bread, apricot and caramel. malt-fruity ending, a tad too sweet. Far from great (shared with Finn, 28.11.2015).

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

Cask at the Greyhound (JDW), Maidenhead. Bright amber with a thin cream head; sweet grainy aroma; syrupy in the mouth with some fruity malts; and some pear juice to finish.