7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask Conditioned at Charlie’s Pub, Copenhagen
Cloudy amber color; thin head. Some aroma of malt, yeast, earthy, manure. Medium body, malty, some residual sweetness, good bitterness (both quantity and quality); an impression of ripe apples. Strong final, still with some malt. A good bitter, sweether than the average, good English character.
Cloudy amber color; thin head. Some aroma of malt, yeast, earthy, manure. Medium body, malty, some residual sweetness, good bitterness (both quantity and quality); an impression of ripe apples. Strong final, still with some malt. A good bitter, sweether than the average, good English character.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Dec 2006
at 09:06
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
[Cask at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen] A hazy dark orange beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is sweet and very malty. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of oranges, but also light metallic notes, light to a lightly bitter end. The body is a bit thin.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Nov 2006
at 16:14
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Can, Sainsbury’s, Kidlington, 31-10-06. Mmmhh difficult to think of many positives about this, I only picked it up because it had been split from a multipack and was cheap. Amber coloured with white creamy head, bit sweet some malt but all in all as expected quite disappointing.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Nov 2006
at 02:10
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask handpull at Folkestone Wetherspoons. Mid brown colour with lasting bubbly beige head. Drinkable inoffensive malty bitter. Stronger choc malt than most bitters. It’s fine. Nice tangy hop on end. Better than I expected.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Oct 2006
at 12:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Cask. Hazy red amber. Slightly nutty fruity malt base, hoppy flowery. Quite dry mouthfeel.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Aug 2006
at 10:15
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Handpump Worcester City FC every season since 1988. Like the Banks bitter, this is another regular that I’ve had that not got around to rating. Amber coloured, easy drinking beer bit nutty and malty and creamy tasting. Another beer that is worshipped around the Worcester and above into it’s heartland its hard to dislike what is almost always a consistenly average, perfectly acceptable, decent enough beer, if there is one thing that I can say about Banks that is very positive I can barely recall having to take a pint back.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Aug 2006
at 12:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Handpump Worcester City FC every season since 1988. This has been one of those regular beers that I’ve had that have never got around to rating. A copper coloured malty beer with medium frothy head smooth very easy drinking and around those parts and further north into the heart of the West Midlands this beer is worshipped. I lived in Hooky country before 8-9 years in Worcester, I’ve moved back to this area Banks Bitter is fine but it’s not a patch on a proper beer, like the aforementioned Hooky.
Tried
on 02 Aug 2006
at 12:29
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask conditioned at the Gardeners Arms, Plantation Rd, Oxford 25-07-05. This was sampled very shortly after BeeZone and yet somewhat suprisngly I felt that this had more lucious honey type flavours than the aformentioned beer. I wouldn’t have described it as a wheat beer and felt that it had a very good clarity though I must add that the Gardeners Arms is a very small dark pub and so my eyes could have been tricked, it appeared a pale amber colour and had some sweet and wheatyness in the aroma perahps but it really was the taste that impressed and particularly as it was Banks I was even more suprised. Mixing it up with that lucious sweetness there was a pleasant citrusy tang that counteracted nicely, creating a very nice balance. This wasn’t particularly bitter, but all in all made an excellent session beer that I would happily search out again.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Aug 2006
at 02:35
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draught: Deep amber coloured, small lacing white head; fruity nose with a very faint touch of roasted malt and a tinge of yeast; light dry (fruity), light bitter flavour, light bodied, not really watery; delicate, fruity-bitter finish. Not bad, but not very aromatic........
Tried
on 30 Jul 2006
at 05:44
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask@Cayo Arms, Cardiff. Light copper brown color, small white head. Strong aroma of honey in the nose. A bit watery, crisp, earthy (not fresh cask?), malty-nutty flavor.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jul 2006
at 15:03