03/04/2011. HALF MOON INN, 86 New Elvet, DURHAM, Durham, England

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

Cask at Great British Beer Festival 2014, London. Pours pale golden with a white cap. Aroma: malt, caramel, bread, citrus. Taste: light sweet & bitter, fruity, earthy, hay, raisins, light floral. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. OK.

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask (hand pump) at the Darlington Spring Thing Beer Festival. ABV is 4.0%. Pale golden colour, low head. Nice citrussy aroma. Distinctly bitter hoppy flavour, but has too weak body to support the bitterness. Still props to Durham for daring to brew hoppy ales, while so many other English breweries are "playing safe" with boring beers.

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

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2014, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Durham Apollo ].Clear light medium yellow color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, citrus, fruity, malty, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20140813]

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

From cask. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, light citrusy and crisp hoppy. Lingering fruity and smooth hoppy. Bitter, citrusy and slight grassy. Bitter and dry hoppy into a crisp hoppy into the finish.

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

Cask @ Old Gate, Hebden Bridge. Straw-blond with a small creamy head. Has a hoppy character, a touch dry with a medium bitterness.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Sampled @ GBBF day 2. Clear pale yellow to pale golden color, virtually no head. Smell and taste lightly malts, some hops, lightly sweaty, lightly bitter, lightly fruity. Decent body and carbonation. Pity there’s some sweaty notes in there.

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

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

Cask at 2014 GBBF. Saturday dregs tick and run. Light yellow straw coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is onion soup, chive, hop leaf and straw. Flavour is straw, earthy, lemon, chive. Rough round the edges. Firm rough grassy bitterness. Palate is light and grainy, some husk tanin. Meh.

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

Cask at Great British Beer Festival 2014, Olympia, London. A light golden coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, citrus fruit aroma. Tastes hoppy, grapefruit, citrus fruit, slightly bitter.