Hogs Back Brewery Fresh Spring Ale

Fresh Spring Ale

 

Hogs Back Brewery in Tongham, Surrey, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Golden / Blonde Ale Regular
Score
5.74
ABV: 4.0% IBU: - Ticks: 9
We brew this fresh flavoured beer with some floral aromas to celebrate the coming of Spring to Tongham. Traditional malted barley forms the base notes to which we add local Hampton Estate Fuggles hops at three stages in the copper boil to give the wonderful gentle floral aroma and flavour. At 4% abv, this is a perfect beer with which to sit in the garden and enjoy the lengthening evenings.
 

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5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Tap @ The Rodboro, Guildford. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are fruits, flowers, hops and grain. Light acidic.

Tried from Draft on 14 Feb 2018 at 15:00


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Cask @ The Rodboro, Guildford. Clear yellow with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, light green apples and light hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. Not in good condition. 140218

Tried from Cask on 14 Feb 2018 at 14:57


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at The Rodboro, Guildford. Pours golden with a small off-white head. Aroma of light hop, citrus, biscuit and grass. Moderate sweetness, medium bitterness. Medium body, slight oily texture, soft carbonation. Fruity finish.

Tried from Cask on 14 Feb 2018 at 14:47


4

Tried on 14 Apr 2015 at 18:45


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

Bottle from Waitrose Sunningdale, at home, 06/04/14. Clear golden with a big off white head that soon collapses to a swirl and edgework. Nose is light citrus, bread dough, straw, toasted aroma. Taste comprises pale malts, light caramel, orchard fruit, lemon jus, straw. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a subtle bitter notes. Perfectly drinkable fayre, typical whelming GB.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Apr 2014 at 03:30


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is fruity, wooden and mildly not-too-sweet nectary notes. Flavour is wood, fruits, some slight bready notes as well as mild resiny notes. Aftertaste is caramelly, wooden and slightly floral.

Tried from Cask on 18 Jun 2012 at 21:04


5.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask (handpump) @ Black Lion, 65 Chapel Street, Salford, Greater Manchester M3 5BZ, England.Clear medium orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, light to moderate apple - overriped apple, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration, sour milk ! Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100425]

Tried from Cask on 16 Nov 2010 at 08:49


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

Cask conditioned at the Monk’s Retreat (JDW), Reading. An amber pint with a white head; slightly grassy, hoppy aroma; full-bodied with a citrus hop flavour; leading to a dry grapefruit aftertaste. (4/5/2007 - 5/3/6/4/13=3.1)

50cl bottle of Fresh Spring Ale from Waitrose. Pale amber with a rapidly vanishing white head; malty aroma; soft malty taste with some grassy hops; and a rather clinging finish. (7/14/2013 - 6/3/6/3/12=3)

Tried from Cask on 05 Apr 2007 at 09:19


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Cask handpull at Simple Simon’s, Canterbury. Gold/blonde beer with lasting thick whte head. Last half out of the barrel. Bit of stale malt leads to refreshing syrupy concentrated citrus of the lemon curd variety. Would be good on top form in summer. Saaz hops perhaps on the aroma?

Tried from Cask on 07 Mar 2006 at 11:33