27/07/2017. BRASS & GRANITE, 53 Grange Street, KILMARNOCK, East Ayrshire, Scotland (GREENE KING). I believe that this is just Greene King IPA but brewed at Belhaven in Dunbar

5.5

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

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2014, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Herok & Howell’s Festival Ale ].Clear medium orange yellow color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate malty, fruity malt, pale malt, light cookie - biscuit malt. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, bread, fruity, pale malt, biscuit malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20140812]

5.8

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

Cask at sraf 2015. Pours clear amber, nose is grassy, toffee, taste is dry, sticky toffee, sweet. --- Beer merged from original tick of Herok & Howell's Festival Ale on 13 Jul 2015 at 14:09 - Score: 6. Original review text: Cask at sraf 2015. Pours clear amber, nose is grassy, toffee, taste is dry, sticky toffee, sweet.

6.4

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

From cask. Pours clear and golden yellow with a fully gone head. Aroma is slight herbal, grassy and toasted malty. Bitter, slight fruity and toasted malty. Lingering fruity and crisp hoppy. Light dry.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draft at the Great British Beer Festival 2014, Day 1 - London. Pours clear yellow with a mild, white foam head. Simple beer. Biscuity malt character, low bitterness, faint lemon notes, straw. Light bodied with fine carbonation; decent condition. Basic doughy and biscuity malt finish, more lemony hops. Nice drinking beer.

5.2

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

Cask at GBBF ’14, day 1, 12/08/14. Clear golden with a moderate off white head. Nose is bready malt, light citric tunes, straw. Taste comprises much the same, pretty soulless and dull, yeast, straw, bread. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, light bitterness in the close. So very so.

5.8

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

12th August 2014
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Clear pale gold beer, no real head. Palate is light and semi dry. Light and honeyish pale malt. Little minerals. Light finish. Just about passable.

4.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Cask @ The Moorings, Sowerby Bridge. Copper with a frothy head and an unpleasant bushy-floral bitterness.

5

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

Cask at GBBF 2014. It pours clear pale gold with a small white head. The nose is soft, fruity, grainy, stone fruit and candied citrus peel. The taste is sweet, grainy, toasty, apricot, oily, peach, sugar and cereal with a drying finish. Light-medium body and fine carbonation. Sticky mouth-feel. Pretty basic.

6.3

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

caskat cloisters ...amber ... thin white head ... soft fruit nose ... juicy fruits ... little eggy ... soft fruits ... odd ... but not unplesant