7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Cross, Kingswinford. Pours murky dull gold with a medium head. Aroma is creamy yeasty papaya. Taste has sweet and creamy papaya and passion fruit.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Sep 2024
at 13:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Gravity cask at Clacton-on-Sea CAMRA Beer Festival 2024. Pours light hazed gold with beige foam. Aroma: sweet malts, floral, fragrant, citrus. Taste: near moderate sweet & bitter, floral hop semi-dry finish. Tidy flavours for the ABV, just shows that sub 4% golden beers aren't all as dull as ditchwater.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Aug 2024
at 11:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Sly old Fox, JDW. Poured a mostly clear golden colour with a lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malt, light citrus fruits. The flavour is moderate to light bitter, with a smooth, malt, light lemon citrus, light pepper spice, hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jul 2024
at 17:23
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Raven, Crewe. Pours a slightly hazy golden amber with a small off-white head and good lacing. Not much of an aroma – just hints of malts and caramel. In the mouth it is basically sweet, but with some strange gooseberry undertones. After a while a more conventional fruitiness comes through with herbal hints. Finish is somewhat earthy. A bit strange – but it WAS near the bottom of the barrel. Rerate required ?
Tried
from Cask
on 21 May 2024
at 21:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at Lych Gate, Wolverhampton. Pours a golden yellow with a small almost white head and good lacing. The aroma is mainly floral hops plus some lemon and generic citrus. In the mouth it starts with a slight bitterness but some sweetness soon becomes apparent, and the two continue to vie for supremacy. Flavour is floral hops and summer fruits plus traces of citrus and lime. Finish is slightly dry. This is quite reasonable.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Apr 2024
at 16:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the White Swan, Solihull. Poured a slightly hazy light amber colour with a lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malt, light yeast. The flavour is moderate to light bitter, with a smooth, somewhat light, malty, earthy, herbal, yeasty, light hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Feb 2024
at 21:39
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From cask. Pours clear and golden deep brown. Small tan head. Roasted, dark malty. Bitter, dark malty. Breadish. Caramelish. Toasted and bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Feb 2024
at 11:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the White Swan JDW, Solihull. Poured a slightly hazy golden colour with a lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malt, light yeast. The flavour is moderate to light bitter, with a smooth, somewhat rich, malt, yeasty, light woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Nov 2023
at 21:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a dark chestnut brown colour with a mostly lasting bubbly off white head. The aroma is roasty malt, light red berry fruits. The flavour is moderate to light liqourice bitter, with a smooth, light, liquorice, chocolate, light liqourice bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Nov 2023
at 19:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford. Pours a slightly hazy golden yellow with a small off-white head. There’s an unusual aroma of candy and passion fruit with hints of citrus too. In the mouth it starts off sweet and juicy, but tangy bitterness quickly becomes evident. With floral hops and summer fruits. Later citrus increases the fruitiness with plenty of lime in evidence. Finish is quite bitter, dry and slightly sticky. This is pleasant and interesting – certainly plenty of flavour for the strength.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Oct 2023
at 22:13