Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Wine Rack, Leeds. Clear copper-amber with next to no head. Has a fruity aroma and taste with some marzipan involved in the former. There’s a sugary malty-sweetness in the latter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Leeds Beer Festival 2016. Amber-gold. Lots of sweet toffee, much like candy at a fairground. Was also voted as the ’Mild of the Festival’.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Leeds Beer Festival 2016. Clear copper coloured ale. Has a stated fruitiness with toffee flavours dominating these in its taste, which linger long in its aftertaste, although there’s a bitterness here.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol March 2016. Deep copper in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. Aroma of sweetish malts and a touch of berry fruit, with a whiff of leafy hop. Flavour had sweetish, bready, malts, some more fruit and a gentle finish. A bit underpowered.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ Crosse Keys, London. Clear brown with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and dark fruit. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 250316
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ Beckett’s Bank, Leeds. Has a sticky-sweet character, and is somewhere between marzipan and toffee in its aroma, perhaps edging closer to the former in taste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On cask @ the Standing Order. Appearance - amber with a nice head. Nose - toffee, light biscuit. Maybe a hint of chocolate. Taste - yes, toffee and light biscuits confirmed. Palate - close to medium bodied with a creamy yet crunchy texture and a finish that could be less sweet, if I’m being honest. Overall - tasty enough, but could finish better.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the standing order. Pours clear orange gold with a thin white head. Aromas of caramel and orange. Taste is sweet, faint orange and spice. Sweet finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask handpull at Lord Moon of the Mall Spoons London. Clear red ale lasting beige head. some red fruit. Quite light in mouth. Some dryness on the finish. A little watery maybe. Cold. As a red ale it has some fruit. It’s OK a little spice to the dryness on the finish. OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at the standing order. Pours clear amber, nose is sweet toffee, floral, taste is similar, chewy.