Curmudgeon
Oakham Ales in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England 🏴
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.16
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Amber in colour with a smooth caramel base and bursting with berry, citrus and tropical fruit flavours.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at CBC Holborn - London. Pours clear yellow-gold with a lasting, creamy white head. Good citrus hop aroma with understated pale bread, grass, some pine needles. Medium sweet flavor with lightly toasted pale malts, sun-kissed grains, hay, dried citrus and a bit of rind. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation; good condition. Lightly resinous to finish with nice grapefruit notes, some pale bread, toasty grains, melon, subtle jammy citrus, marmalade, moderate grain husk bitterness, orange rind and hay. Good stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Oct 2014
at 00:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
2nd June 2014
Craft Covent Garden. Cask. Almost clear gold beer, tidy white head. Palate is smooth and light with mild fine carbonation. Sweetish smooth light malt. Hops are ripe orange with fresher orange underneath. Touch of marmalade. Traces of lemon and hop spice. Smooth finish. Decent but not quite singing.
Craft Covent Garden. Cask. Almost clear gold beer, tidy white head. Palate is smooth and light with mild fine carbonation. Sweetish smooth light malt. Hops are ripe orange with fresher orange underneath. Touch of marmalade. Traces of lemon and hop spice. Smooth finish. Decent but not quite singing.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Jun 2014
at 01:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Craft Holborn, 03/06/14. Clear golden with a moderate off white head. Nose is citric peel, orange squash, tangerine, light bread notes, grassy. Taste comprises floral hop tones, orange, citric peel, straw. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, arid closure. Another solid golden blonde fom Oakham.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jun 2014
at 08:35
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at Craft Beer Co, Covent Garden on 23rd May 2014. Amber to gold with thin loose off-white foam. Biscuit malt and citric hop aromas. The liquid taste is grass and citric hop with plenty of biscuit malt; the two foci harrmonising. A bitter core develops in finish whilst hop and malt remain in background. Light yet engaging texture and a fair amount of body.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jun 2014
at 11:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask gravity at CPBF 2014. It pours clear golden with a small white head. The nose is fresh, piney, tangerine, grapefruit, kumquat, hay, peach and light brioche. The taste is crisp, bitter, peppery, grapefruit, tangerine, resin, hop astringency, straw, pine and varnish with a lingering dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Fresh, crisp, tasty and massively drinkable. Oakham own pale hoppy cask ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 May 2014
at 05:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask gravity at Banbury Beer Festival, Friday 9th May 2014 Golden in colour wonderfully zippy hops, thrusty, furry bitterness, hugely citrus, really good. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 3.9
Tried
from Cask
on 09 May 2014
at 11:03
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Cask (Bodega, Newcastle) - Golden with a white head. Grapefruit, lemon and passion fruit in the aroma. Crisp, hoppy and refreshing taste with grapefruit, lemon and peach detected. Another good beer from Oakham.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Apr 2014
at 15:30
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a crystal clear straw colour with a bubbly white head. The aroma is light grassy hop, citrus. The flavour is medium bitter with a smooth grassy nettle hop, light caramel, barnyard funk palate and a short bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. All the Oakham hallmarks and there’s nothing wrong with that!
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Apr 2014
at 10:39