13/11/2010. WELKIN, 7 Whitechapel, LIVERPOOL, Merseyside, England (WETHERSPOONS)

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

Cask during a Wetherspoon Beer Festival in 2010. No notes as pre-Ratebeer for me but rating transferred from the Facebook Beerseek app.

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

Cask (handpump) @ The Alexander Graham Bell (JDW), 128 George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland EH2 4JZ.Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruty, strawberries. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, strawberry, green strawberry bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101029]

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

Cask handpull at Penderel’s Oak, JDW, Holborn. Gold lasting creamy head. Faint touch of strawberry on aroma. Yes, it has strawberries in flavour. Interesting battle of sweet fruit and bitter beer goiong on. Even a touch whiskyish. It’s not horrible, but I wouldn’t say it works brilliantly either. It’s interesting.

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

Cask, handpump at The Penny Black, Bicester, Oxon, 11.12.10 Pours golden in colour, touch sweet with some strawberryness, actually it’s a little like jammy dodgers, some bitterness, it’s fine but nothing special. A6 A3 T6 P3 Ov12 3.1

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

From cask at The Crystal Palace. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild strawberry fruity. Hoppy, slight citrusy and mild strawberry fruity. Bitter and slight malty finish.

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

27th October 2010
Spoons Fest! Clear gold beer with a residual suddy white head. Light and pleasant nose of strawberry. Light dry palate. Nicely judged light touch of sweet strawberry on top of some toffeeish even malt. Subtle peach harmonic. Finishes pretty dry with some previously unspotted hop bitterness in the aftertaste. Detf beer and a pleasant surprise!

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

Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading. Straw with a thin white head; flavour of (real) strawberry and a touch of vanilla; then a light dry floral bitterness, followed by a lingering strawberry aftertaste. much better than expected.

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

cask at AGBell ... golden yellow ... thin white head .... light strawberry fruit nose ... sweet strawb ... little but not too much artifical ... easy drinkin... not great but better than expected

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

Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol 24/10/10. Golden with a slight white head. Light malty aroma, with a hint of red fruit. Flavour was similarly inoffensive, with some biscuity malts before a genuine dash of strawberry and a moderately bitter finish. Ok, and certainly a major improvement on the artificial Strawberry Fields from the same brewer.