6.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Shrewsbury Hotel, Shrewsbury. Pours golden yellow with a small foamy almost white head and good lacing. There’s a fresh aroma featuring berry fruits and some hints of corn. In the mouth the first sip is sweet but it very quickly becomes quite strongly bitter. Similarly malty hints quickly shift to mixed hops and citrus, then later to sharpness with grapefruit and hints of caramel. Finish is dry, bitter and quite sticky. This is reasonable but not really my type of beer.
Tried
from Cask
at
Shrewsbury Hotel
on 05 Mar 2026
at 12:00
Tried
from Cask
at
Imperial (JDW)
on 04 Mar 2026
at 00:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
[Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell.] An amber pour with a tight white head; tropical fruit aroma; smooth in the mouth with a grainy body and a sweet tropical fruit taste cut through with a strong resinous bitterness. A satisfying West Coast style IPA.
Tried
from Cask
at
Old Manor
on 12 Feb 2026
at 11:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the moon under water Watford. A clear mid orange coloured pour with a tidy white cap. Aroma is nutty caramel malts, pine, bark, grass, biscuit. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, resinous piney sappy hop, bark, grass, caramel, tangerine, biscuit. Firm piney hop bitterness. Palate is semi sweet, resinous hop oils, mellow cask condition. Solid cask West coaster.
Tried
on 03 Feb 2026
at 20:47
Tried
from Cask
at
Sun Wharf
on 03 Feb 2026
at 12:01
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
3rd December 2025
Cask at Pigs Ear. Near clear amber beer, small bubbly tan head. Smooth palate, a little dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft dark malts, a decent chocolate, a milk chocolate. Ripe fruits, reasonably bright. Light and semi dry finish. Tasty enough mild.
Cask at Pigs Ear. Near clear amber beer, small bubbly tan head. Smooth palate, a little dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft dark malts, a decent chocolate, a milk chocolate. Ripe fruits, reasonably bright. Light and semi dry finish. Tasty enough mild.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jan 2026
at 12:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Gravity cask at day 2 of the 41st Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 03/12/2025.
Extremely dark mahogany brown topped with a beige cap that veers to the edge.
Nose is dark malts, brown bread, herb, toffee.
Taste comprises cocoa powder, tangy fruit rinds, toffee, dark malts.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Tidy mild.
Extremely dark mahogany brown topped with a beige cap that veers to the edge.
Nose is dark malts, brown bread, herb, toffee.
Taste comprises cocoa powder, tangy fruit rinds, toffee, dark malts.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Tidy mild.
Tried
on 03 Dec 2025
at 11:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
Badged as "NZ Pale Ale'. Cask at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Nose is peach, tangerine, apricot. Lots of citrus in the taste, more peach, light notes of tropical fruits. Malty bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
at
Star & Garter
on 11 Nov 2025
at 20:49
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
light golden yellow ...thin white lacing ...soft floral biscuit fruit ..Light bitter ..long bitter biscuit
Tried
on 22 Sep 2025
at 11:47
5.5/10
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Aug 2025
at 17:06