02/10/1999. WOOLPACK INN, 4 High Street, STONEHOUSE, Gloucestershire, England (WHITBREAD)

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

36th CAMRA Cotswold beer festival (July 2012) in the lovely 15th century Tithe Barn: the setting for my tasting of this beer. Gravity poured pint: golden yellow body with a thin white crown on top. The nose was a pleasant, yet fairly weak mix of floral notes and lightly baked pale malts. The taste was also fairly weak (compared to so many other beers at the festival): a bland, blend of beery ingredients which didn’t really excite or balance out too well. I suspect it is a watered down and slightly tampered with Uley Pigs Ear.

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

Cask @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear medium yellow color with a small, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, white nuts, earthy - damp stain - fusty. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20100804]

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

Cask@GBBF2010. Golden colour, minor head. Aroma is peas, quite bready and earthy as well. Flavouris quite much the same. Quite dull and boring.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

From cask. Pours clear and golden yellow with a fully gone head. Aroma is mild butterish and slight hoppy citrusy. Sweet malty, butterish and slight fruity. Mild bitterness into the finish.

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

Cask at GBBF 2006. A hazy pale orange beer with a bubbly thin off white head. The aroma is quite light with notes of malt and hops - too light for my liking. The flavor is sweet malty with quite strong notes of citrus, leading to a dry bitter end, but the body is thin. A thin but quite refreshing beer.

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

Cask at GBBF 2006. Gold with thick off white head. Sweetish aroma. Empty in mouth. Bottom of the barrel? Bit of vanilla. Not good.