7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cask at the St Albans beer festival 2024. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is semi sweet, toffee, diacetyl, pine jammy pine. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, earthy grains, rounded toffee, pine, bark, assertive bitterness,. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, decent cask condition. Meh.
Cask gravity at the Villiers arms. A clear pale straw yellow coloured pour with a lasting fine white head. Aroma is nice floral hop oils, hedgerow hop, blueberry. Mixed berries. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, pale grains, blueberry, hedgerow berries, grass. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, good cask condition. Nice summery ale.
Cask gravity at the Villiers arms. A clear pale straw yellow coloured pour with a lasting fine white head. Aroma is nice floral hop oils, hedgerow hop, blueberry. Mixed berries. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, pale grains, blueberry, hedgerow berries, grass. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, good cask condition. Nice summery ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2024
at 14:57
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the St Albans beer festival 2024. A clear copper brown coloured pour with a lasting loose beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, toasted malts. Toffee, biscuit, burnt grass. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, layered malts, toffee, liquorice, burnt grass, firm bitterness. Palate is semi sweet, grainy, decent cask condition. Punchy flavours. Solid bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2024
at 12:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the St Albans beer festival 2024. A mostly clear golden coloured pour with a lasting loose off white head. Aroma is straw, damp hay, grassy hop. Flavour is composed of grain tannin, straw, husky grains, firm grassy bitterness. Palate is crisp, grainy, mellow carbonation drying finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2024
at 12:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask gravity at the Watford beer festival 2024. A clear deep orange coloured pour with a fine off white head. Aroma is nutty earthy malts, grass, twig, bark. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty toasted malts, grass, mineral, rusty penny,, green liquorice, cut grass. Firm hop bitterness. Palate is semi sweet, fine carbonation. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2024
at 19:01
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Wilde Kite taproom, Great Missenden, 01/08/24. Clear golden blonde topped with a lasting white head. Nose is palr malts, citric tinged straw, melon, grass. Taste comprises soft malts, tangerine, light bread dough, melon, hint of grapefruit. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close punctured with mellow hop bitterness. Tidy cask pale.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Aug 2024
at 19:20
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Cambridge Blue, Cambridge on 18th July 2024. Golden amber with shallow off-white foam and almost no lacing. Fruity, floral and soapy aromas. Tangy fruits in-mouth and a sweet fruity finish. Light bodied with a smooth mouthfeel.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jul 2024
at 20:59
6/10
On cask at the Prae Wood, St Albans. Appearance - amber and clear. Snow white lacing. Nose - twiglets and cereal. Caramel. Taste - orange and twiglets. Palate - close to medium bodied, creamy middle, bitter finish. Overall - OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jul 2024
at 15:57
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle online from Beer:Shop, Hitchin. Pours clear deep brown with tan foam. Aroma: roast, oatmeal, coffee, char, malt loaf, earthy. Taste: moderate sweet & bitter. Medium body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2024
at 20:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
A long week of work, travelling and a full on Saturday of garden jobs and transporting children. Not helped by feeling rough all day following an unexpected Friday night bender in Hitchin with a great friend. Anyway, this beer was required. Bags of flavour with well balanced hops and a welcome bitterness. This is just a really good beer.
Tried
on 13 Jul 2024
at 17:11
6/10
Tried
on 05 Jul 2024
at 10:45