6.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at Merton Summer Beer and Cider Festival 2009 17-07-09 Pours golden with a beautiful white bubbly head. Its strange but the three golden ales that were using either solely Chinook or predominantly Chinook hops were probably three of the best looking beers on the day. This lacks a little on the aroma front save for a little citrus. There is a nice soft slightly restrained grapefruit tanginess to this beer and whilst far from my favourite on the day, it was really decent and another very good effort in the monthly series that Vale have done this year. A5 A5 F7 P4 Ov13 3.4