15/09/2012. ROYAL OAK, Lower Bristol Road, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (FOUR COUNTY INNS)

4.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Half-pint, cask at Hand and Heart. Spotty lacing from a filmy layer. Clear golden-brown. Aroma of brown malts and dried fruits. Malt-fruity taste of ripe orange and mid-sweet malts. Drying ending. Okay, rather anonymous (shared with Finn, Nottingham 20.02.2016).

6

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

Fra fat på Hand & Heart i Nottingham 20 Feb 16. Delt med Rune. Gyldenbrun. Lavt skum. Tynn lacing. Lett ferskenaroma. Smaken fersken i ulike nyanser. Avslutter tørt.

6.5

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

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2012, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, keller, earthy, light moderate hoppy, fruity. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120809]

5.8

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

Cask at The Old Joint Stock, Birmingham. Poured a clear medium amber with a bubbly white head. The aroma is big malt and fruit. The flavour is weak bitter and a little watery. The malt and fruit are there in the flavour along with some hoppy, grassy notes, but this beer lacks the punch to make it a quality ale.

6.8

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

Cask@GBBF2012. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, malty and also has some bready and herbal notes to it. Flavour is fruity, floral, wooden and a bit herbal. Pleasantly balanced.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Jan 2012: Took a risk with this beer: Hand pulled pint into a nonic in a newly opened, refurbished pub, new landlord and the beer is from a brewery I’d never heard of. The beer was a good clear bronze/dull copper colour, the head a thin covering of small white bubbles. They have used hops from New Zealand and the US in the brew and the nose was certainly on the hoppy side: the taste was also leaning more towards hops than malts. Pleasant beer, easy to drink and refreshing, the hops giving a semi-bitter bite and dry finish without completely taking over the taste.