7

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

Cask at St Albans Beer & Cider Festival, St Albans, Herts. A hazy golden orange/yellow coloured pour with a medium white bubbly head on top. Hoppy, mango, peach, tropical fruit aroma & taste. Decent.

7.3

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

Gravity cask at the 28th St Albans Beer Festival, 26/09/25.
Golden blonde topped with a white cap.
Nose is grass, melon, bitter orange, papaya.
Taste comprises mandarin, soft malts, grapefruit, light pine flicker.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy hop bitterness.
Decent well rounded cask IPA.

7

Spoons Spring Fest 2025 - juicy fruity with notes of peach and mango, melon and some citrus notes, soft sweet malty cask carb mouthfeel and body, fresh abd tasty and quaffable.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Not bad for a Spoons beer. Moderately sweet, some semi-ripe citrus fruits, mellow rindy bitterness. Easy drinking ale.

7.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask up the White Lady. Pours near-clear yellow gold with a thin white head. Aromas of peach and nectarine. Taste has tinned mandarin on top. Juicy finish.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading. Golden-amber with a very light haze, mild carbonation and a lasting white head. Good carbonation again - the cellaring at BoBs (as locals call this pub) is significantly better than when I visited last week for some reason. Tropical fruit - pineapple and nectarine - up front, with a touch of golden caramel. Orange blossom notes emerge, and there's sweet pink grapefruit in the finish. The flavours (and the haze!) are a bit light for a NEIPA, but the rich, mellow mouthfeel makes this very pleasant and relaxing to drink. Enjoyable, albeit sitting on the borderline between a NEIPA and a gold.

6.9

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

Cask handpull at County Hotel haze gold colour lasting white. Not as good as I was hoping as I normally love Oakham beers. Neither an apa nor a neipa. Somewhere between the two. Some tropical hop fruit. Some pineapple flavour. Light bitterness on the finish. It's ok. Decent condition and temperature. Just lacking a big of pazazz

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

6.9

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Beer Number 3 at the Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival 2025, leaving 25 of 30 still untried. Glowing hoppy beer, hint of fruit. Easy for strength and good looking.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at Briar Rose, Birmingham. Pours a hazy golden yellow with a minimal almost white head and excellent lacing. The aroma has floral hops and citrus with a hint of pineapple. In the mouth it is sweet with a creamy texture. Floral hops and citrus prominent again with oats also featuring. Hints of tropical fruits and mango come later. Sweetness is still there in the finish. This is decent enough – but nowhere near as hazy as you would expect an NEIPA to be.