12/11/2011. CROSSE KEYS, 9 Gracechurch Street, LONDON, EC3, England (WETHERSPOONS)

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

Cask at Devonshire Arms, Cambridge. copper with a fair bit of head and lacing. Intriguing spicy aroma: doughy and nutty with traces of ginger and cinnamon. Disappointing taste: a woody bitter with a hint of quininey sour. Dry finish. Slightly unpleasant sour aftertaste. I’ve had worse but this isn’t great.

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

Cask @ County Hotel, Ashford. Golden with a bubbly head. Fairly ordinary bitter with a mild malty character and a medium bitterness.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

500 mml bottle tasted on 19/06/2014. Clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma is malty and sugar. Taste is malty too, watery and yeast. Little sweet and little dry aftertaste. Medium carbonation and light body. Nothing special. Next one please!

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle 500ml.Clear medium orange yellow colour with a large to huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, pale malt, light to moderate hoppy, grass - leather. Flavour is moderate sweet with a long duration, tart malt, leather, dusty malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20131012]

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

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Clear golden with a lasting white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and moderate hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. carbonation is high. This is my first reasonably clean beer from Nelson in my fifth try. 121013

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle, 4.3%/4.4% again depending on where on the bottle you look... Clear golden with floaties and medium white head. Aroma is malt, fruit and a little hop. Flavour is malt, fruit, yeast, little over carbonated, little sweet, little plastic, phenols,

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

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, grass, straw and hops. Semi high carbonation.

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

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is milky and light fruity. Citric. Bitter, herbal, ashtray and dry. Mild citric and light fruity finish.