Moonrise

Cask at NWAF, 2013. Amber pour with a white head. Orange marmalade and peach aroma. Pear, melon and kiwi fruit flavour. Nice.

Cask, gravity at Shreswbury Folk Festival main bar Saturday 25th August 2012 Pours copper in colour, no head, little flat, middling bitterness, malty but offering little else, it is ok but no great shakes. A6 A3 T6 P3 Ov12 3.0

Brown 500ml bottle, best before July 2011, drank and during on of my ’random beer tasting evenings’ in April 2011. Poured into an ’Abbot Ale’ glass tankard: it was a lovely deep amber, clear and good looking, a mountanous snowy white head sat majestically on top. The head slowly sank with the beer and left some thick clingy lacing on the glass. Malts all the way with this brew, difficult to find any hop content in the smell or taste, althought it wasn’t a sweet sickly beer in any way. Almost rich in its creamy mouthfeel, it became slightly bitter towards the end of the taste, but again it didn’t seem to be a hop induced bitterness, just a drying of the mouth type.

Bottled. Hazy amber, rich firm head. Rich perfumy floral hop aroma. Dryish with light rainy malt and crisp mouthfeel. Spicy bitterish finish. Pleasant dryish bitter.

Also sampled at the Royal Oak, Bath 13/06/09. Amber coloured with a frothy white head. Fruity aroma with some citrus hops. Flavour had some initial sweetness and orange fruit before a long, bitter finish. Very drinkable.

Cask gravity at Reading BF 09. Copper colour lasting beige head. Appley bitter aroma. It’s a bitter with green apple. Probably not quite ready to go on yet. Too tight on the tongue.