Hobsons Choice
City of Cambridge Brewery in Dereham, Norfolk, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
5.89
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A pale coloured ale with a refreshing hoppy aftertaste.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, cardboard notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20111208]
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2012
at 09:14
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled. Golden colour, mediumsized creamy. Aroma is fruity, herbal and quite caramelly. Flavour is fruits, herbs and some wooden notes as well. Not the most briilliant
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2011
at 16:17
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Medium offwhite coarseish head. Hazy amber body with carbonation. Fruity resiny strawy aroma, quite mild, very harmonic. Dry wooden resiny floral taste with fruity notes. Mild mouthfeel, with strange dusty oily feel to it. Mid-bodied. Dry resiny strawy aftertaste with grainy notes. Nice, drinkable, and definitely has character. (0.5l bottle, RealAle.com.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2010
at 10:27
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7
50cl bottle from Waitrose Cambridge. Amber with a rapidly fading off-white head; aroma of honey and grain; some honey and caramel malt flavours to start, but these are rapidly overtaken by a clean zingy bitterness with traces of citrus and straw, giving a long finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2009
at 10:22
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home ... golden amber ... yeast bready hop nose .. mostly citric hop ... quite sharp just not working. bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2007
at 11:10
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle from Bacchanalia, Cambridge. Copper colour with thin off white head. Yeasty, green apple bitter. Some hop, citrus hoppiness grows to the finish. Prickly carbonation. Fairly plain bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2007
at 11:21
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Slightly unclear golden beer with sediments and a small white head. Sour aroma, probably wild yeast, with fruity and floral notes behind. Some bitter orange too. The flavor is fruity, acidic and citric, with a stinging bitterness in the end. Too thin and watery. It is still 6 months to BBE-date, maybe the brewery have a problem with the sanitation, cause this beer probably shouldn’t be sour. Other than that, it is a well-tasting and refreshing beer. (060806)
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2006
at 13:56
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
(Cask at Wenlock Arms, London 22 Apr 2006) Golden amber colour. Nose is fruity and hoppy with hints of orange and mandarin. Taste is fruity (citrus), starts sweet but ends in a drier rather hoppy finish. Refreshing and easy to drink, but somewhat on the thin side.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Apr 2006
at 14:23
2.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Bottled. Hazy golden, small head.Orangey wild yeast aroma. Sweet, fruit and mellow. Completely dominated by wild fermentation. (No, ante, the bottle was not old. Best before July 2006...)
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2005
at 17:11
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask Conditioned
Amber color. Quite flat flavor, but very nice hoppy aroma and palate; a bit thin, dry mouthfeel, resinous.
Amber color. Quite flat flavor, but very nice hoppy aroma and palate; a bit thin, dry mouthfeel, resinous.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Oct 2005
at 08:27