20/12/2017. VAULTS, 28a St. John's Street, DEVIZES, Wiltshire, England

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

25th November 2017
Keg at HL1. Hazy gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Palate is smooth and semi dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Smooth malts, quite sweet. Modest piney hop. Light Azacca lemony orange. Light crisp finish. A tad sweet perhaps and I would have like more of an edge to the hops but it goes down easy.

6.8

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

Keg at MK SE1. It pours hazy amber with an orange hue. Head is distant and white. The aroma is soft, sweet, massive honeydew melon character, papaya and rich like, honey sweetness, avocado maybe and candy. The taste is crisp, dry, restrained but building bitterness, earthy, melon is the big hitter here, papaya, earthy, wood, touch of spice, brioche, greenness and some pith with a firmly dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Doesn't have the apparent depth of the simcoe version. Still not bad.

6.8

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

Keg at MK BG, 14/11/17. Hazed golden with a well presented off white head. Nose is caramel, melon, bitter citric peel, straw. Taste comprises earthy hop jus, melon, light pine creatures, toasted grains, tangerine. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with balanced hop bitterness. Ok APA but not as good as I've come to expect from Verdant ... rather whelming.