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5.8

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

Cask at the White Cross, Lancaster. As ’Original Bitter’ same abv as this so assume it’s rebranded/alternative name. Pours bright chestnut brown with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of light malt and caramel. Moderate sweetness and bitterness. Medium body, average carbonation.

6.5

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

Bottle from a shop in Windermere. Copper with next to no head. Sweet in aroma and taste with a nice toffee flavour that lingers.

4.3

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

Bottle 500ml. @ ChrisO Snow Tasting.Clear medium amber colour with a small to average, frothy to fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, caramel, oxidide. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter with a long duration, oxidide, keller. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. A quit pour bottle - hope it is better on cask ;O( [20130120]

6

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

Bottle at the ChrisO Snow Tasting, London - thanks to Chris. Pours clear, golden-brown with a light, creamy head. Lightly oxidised malts in the nose, some caramel. Light to medium sweet flavor with dry caramel and faint leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Certainly some further oxidation in the finish, light brown bread, caramel. Old but OK.

5.2

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

Bottle at ChrisO Snow tasting, thanks to Chris, 20/01/13. Hazed mid amber with a thin off white head that clears edgeward. Nose is malty, fruit, light smoke, caramel, medicinal notes - not great. Taste follows, grain, malt, twigs and shit. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, dryish finish. Send to Meh’sville!

4.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle from Asda Carlisle 110113
Copper brown, big frothy head, some lacing
Aroma - caramel bit earthy malts, old leaves, vegetables, poor aroma
Taste - soft caramel, vegetables, some bitter twig hops, dull, not great
Palate - Thin body, slightly oily. Bitterish palate. Finish - soft bitter, bit dry.
Overall - This bottle was very poor - maybe better cask. It was a drain pour. The other beers that I’ve had from this brewery on cask were far better.

5.9

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

Had this sat outside Frank the camper, Aahus 15-09-08 The commercial description says golden brown, I reckon mid amber. Quite an interesting beer after a lot of big hitting things in Kobenhavn. Its an average session beer with light maltiness and not too much bitterness, perhaps a bit thin.

7

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

Ruby coloured ale, with little or no aroma, bit fizzy , with a malty full body fruityness.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle from Booths. Pale chestnut colour with lasting off white head. Best bitter aroma, nice fudge malt aroma and flavour. Toasty, nice fruit too. some cherry and plum. Bit of choc, cherry flavour runs through it. Quite impressed. Malt still a bit thin due to pasteurisation.