Clarks - Over the Top
Westgate Brewery (prev Clarks Brewery) in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
5.86
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Warm orange golden colour, dissipating white head. Aroma of malts, straw and twigs. Malty flavour, bitter notes, butter and fudge. Finish fudge, malts, light bitter.
(from draught @ GBBF ’14, London)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2014, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Clarks Over the Top ].Clear light medium orange color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy and open, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity malt, earthy. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, odd - strange ! hay, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20140812]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
From cask. Pours cloudy orange to yellow with a small white head. Aroma is slight herbal. Toasted malty and grassy. Mild herbal, bitter, toasted and dry hoppy finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ GBBF 2014. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with hoppy hints. Has a fruit malty hoppy caramel finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask @ Leggers Beer Festival, Dewsbury Golden, no head. Small sweetness in nose, a generally sweet ale with some fruitiness evident.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Cask at GBBF
Clear dark golden with a small white head, light lacing. Aroma is citrus. Taste is citrus, buttery and bitters
Not to good
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Sampled @ GBBF. Hazy yellow to light orange color, small off-white head. Smell and taste malts, bitter, slightly hops, a bit buttery. Average body and carbonation. Hmm don’t really like it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask - Sweet caramel and light nuts. Clear gold with no head. Light caramel and twiggy bitterness in the finish. Pretty balanced and decent.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Cask at the 2014 GBBF. Pale amber, aroma is nutty and earthy with some stale malts. Flavour is nutty, diacetyl, berry and butter. Palate is flabby. Meh. Not very good.