George's Brewery Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Charlie

 

George's Brewery in Great Wakering, Essex, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Golden / Blonde Ale Regular
Score
6.58
ABV: 4.0% IBU: - Ticks: 4
Inspired by our brewer Sam’s time in Germany we give you this 4 Malt brew with 3 hop varieties from the USA and Germany.
 

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

Cask @ The Abbey. Pours a deep gold with a good white head. Decent cask blonde overall with mild marmalade hints.

Tried from Cask on 14 Feb 2022 at 16:11


7.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From cask at The Dog & Bell, Deptford, 01.02.22. Clear dark golden. Dense off-white head and lacing. Fine aroma and taste of pale malt, succade and meadowy hops. Very drinkable! Appropriately unvarbonated.

Tried from Cask on 01 Feb 2022 at 23:21


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

Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 2016, National Winter Ales Festival (2016), The Roundhouse, Pride Park, Derby, Derbyshire, England, DE24 8JE. [ As Georges Checkpoint Charlie ].Clear medium orange yellow color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, peach. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration, citrus, fruity, pale malt, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20160219]

Tried from Cask on 28 Apr 2016 at 15:22


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

17th February 2016
Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival at KEGS. Cask. This is called ’Checkpoint Charlie’. Almost clear gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry and has fine carbonation. Clean pale malts, mildly sweet. Light marmalade and a little grapefruit in to mildly tangy floralness. Light finish. Clean.

Tried from Cask on 29 Feb 2016 at 13:15