5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Half pint from cask. Clear, amber-brown body colour. Lacing-head. Mild malty nose followed by a firm flavour of smooth hop bitterness (celebrating first of May 08 at Market Porter.)
Tried
from Cask
on 11 May 2008
at 11:16
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
[i] [b] Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Festival 09-05-08 [/i] [/b] Apparently as the name suggests this is brewed by Gary Mitchell at the Elland plant, so I was reliably informed by a North Oxon CAMRA scooper Paul Yarrop at Banbury Beer Beer Festival. Pours light amber with some sweet citrus which leaks plenty of bitterness around the edge’s and roof of my mouth. The bitter edge to this beer lasts a little while and the beer finishes quite dry, there is some banana on the nose and also some sweet candy in the mouth.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 May 2008
at 09:28
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask gravity at The Swan Inn, Wittersham, Kent. Copper colour, malt is a little syrupy, decent condition. Green apple on aroma. Bit chewy. Hops on end are pretty good with a nice hoppy bite. Bit too much green apple.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 May 2008
at 04:18
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
[i] [b] Cask at The Hop Pole pubs Easter Beer Festival, Aylesbury in the company of Loz, Chris O, Ruth, Barry, Lynn 21-03-08 [/i] [/b]Light amber pour with a slight haze, thin white head. Good solid body to this beer, at first I thought where are the hops but they were there and came flooding through on a layer of sweetness. Aroma is light and hoppy. Myabe this is a bit honey sweet at times but the alcohol was pretty well masked and overall I rather enjoyed this though think a few more hops wouldn’t go amiss.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Mar 2008
at 02:30
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Half, gravity at London Drinker BF 08.
A Best Bitter with a yellow- golden body under a fragile head. Fresh citric aroma supported by flavours of orange and grapefruit shells. Soft bitter backnotes (afternoon session, 13.03.2008).
A Best Bitter with a yellow- golden body under a fragile head. Fresh citric aroma supported by flavours of orange and grapefruit shells. Soft bitter backnotes (afternoon session, 13.03.2008).
Tried
on 21 Mar 2008
at 14:48
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (gravity) @ The National Winter Ales Festival 2008, Manchester, UK. Clear medium amber color with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly - fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, roasted, toffee, kemi ! Flavor is light to moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft - flat. (190108)
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Mar 2008
at 08:47
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask gravity at Bricklayers Arms 2nd Annual Yorkshire BF 08. Pale gold with slight haze and thin white head. Grapefruit hoppy aroma. Good in mouth, sherberty grapefruit on finish. Slightly harsh, but well balanced. Best beer so far. Good hop on finish. Citrus grapefruit. Slips down easily.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Feb 2008
at 04:38
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask gravity at Bricklayers Arms 2nd Annual Yorkshire BF 08. Gold with slight haze. Lasting beige head. Probably not quite ready yet. A little muddy in mouth, good bitter hop on end. Bit of butter on aroma. Very good bittering hop though. Muddy earthy in mouth, give it half a day and it’ll be much better.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Feb 2008
at 04:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Volunteers Arms, GBBF 2007. A brown beer with an orange head. The aroma is sweet alty with strong notes of roasted malt. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of hops and roasted malt, lingering for a long time in the aftertaste. The body is a bit thin.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Feb 2008
at 15:59
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ Anchor, Digbeth, Birmingham B5, UK. Clear medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, roasted, light bitter, herbs, toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to soft to flat. (140108)
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Feb 2008
at 12:43