22/09/2011. HARP, 47 Chandos Place, LONDON, WC2, England

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Dirty Dicks, Halifax. Golden with a thick creamy head. Quite light tasting for its strength with a generally light maltiness running throughout it, but the hop is evident too. Has a berry-sweet nose.

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

Golden. Smooth and malty beer with a light fruity sweetness. Quite a thick syrupy texture.

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

Cask. Golden colour, small fluffy white head. Aroma is floral, honeyish, grassy, mild sweet and bready malts. Flavour is sweet and bready malts with some floral, grassy and mild toffeeish notes.

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

Cask at GBBF 2009. Pale gold, lasting white head. Slight yeast, some citrus fruits, yeasty lemon curd. By day 4 of the festival I was sick of golden ales.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

My last drink at GBBF 09 turned out to be a standard, but well bodied, golden ale. Served into my one-third pint glass from gravity dispense at The Mid East England bar. Crystal clear, golden body. A tiny, fragile head can be stirred up. Citric-floral aroma. Mostly lemony hops in flavour with mild bitter fruits to the ending. I packed my things, paid a visit to The Real Ale in a Bottle Bar and went back to my hotel room very pleased with this year’s festival. I hope to return in August 2010 (Earls Court, London 07.08.2009).

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

Cask (handpump) @ Fat Cat, 23 Alma Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England S3 8SA.Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, flowers. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090417]

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

Cask at the Turf Tavern, Oxford, 24-03-08 Poured gold with thin white head some light fruit, a lasting bitterness, there really wasn’t an awful lot to say about this beer, merely that it was ok. A5 A 3 F 6 P 3 OV 12 2.9 Cask at FFTMC, Oxford 06-09-08 Very pale golden, plenty of body. Silky and smooth quite syrupy, touch too sweet but its tasty. More malt than hops and bitterness, drinkable and moreish in a Tate and Lyle ’tin’ of refined liquid sugar way.