7.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 6
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Cask at Lych Gate, Wolverhampton. Pours golden amber with a medium sized foamy almost white head and excellent lacing. The aroma is mainly malts and caramel with some hints of autumn fruits. In the mouth in fluctuates on the edges of sweet and bitter with malts, caramel and some traditional hoppiness. Later there are hints of honey, barley sgar and apricot. Bitterness wins out in the slightly dry finish. This is decent.
Tried
from Cask
at
Lych Gate Tavern (Black Country Inns)
on 09 Jun 2025
at 14:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Old Bush Revived, Rowley Regis. Pours a very dark reddish-brown with foamy creamy-yellow head and good lacing. There’s malts and oats in the aroma. In the mouth it is sweet, but a little thin. Flavour has plenty of oats, and also roasted malts, liquorice and vanilla. Later on there are hints of chocolate and plums. Sweetness lasts into the finish. This is decent – but a bit lacking in body.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 May 2025
at 11:53
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Guildford Arms. Pours clear golden amber with a thin white head. Aromas of light malt and grassy hops. Taste is thin, light sweet fruit. Thin finish.
Tried
from Cask
at
Guildford Arms
on 21 Apr 2025
at 09:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
On cask at Old Bull's Head, Gornal clear yellow body with a lacing white top. Biscuity malts, some mildly sweet tropical fruit, little grassiness and slightly bitter on the way out.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2025
at 18:05
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Cask at the Weavers Ale House, Stourbridge, 28/02/2025.
Golden blonde with a white cap that retains.
Nose is pale malts, grass, herb, tangerine, light breads.
Taste comprises citric zest, grass, melon, tangerine, soft malts.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close splashed with mellow hop bitterness.
Okay cask pale.
Golden blonde with a white cap that retains.
Nose is pale malts, grass, herb, tangerine, light breads.
Taste comprises citric zest, grass, melon, tangerine, soft malts.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close splashed with mellow hop bitterness.
Okay cask pale.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 15:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Weavers Ale House, Stourbridge, 28/02/2025.
Extremely dark mahogany brown meets light black topped with a lasting faded khaki cap.
Nose is chocolate biscuit, light roast, dried fruit esters.
Taste comprises dark malts, cocoa powder, dried fruit rinds, charr.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Tidy cask stout.
Extremely dark mahogany brown meets light black topped with a lasting faded khaki cap.
Nose is chocolate biscuit, light roast, dried fruit esters.
Taste comprises dark malts, cocoa powder, dried fruit rinds, charr.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Tidy cask stout.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 15:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Cask at the Weavers Ale House, Stourbridge, 28/02/2025.
Clear golden topped with a lasting white head.
Nose is pale malts, light citric zest, grass.
Taste comprises mellow citric peel, pale malts, grass, herb, biscuit.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close.
Okay cask affair.
Clear golden topped with a lasting white head.
Nose is pale malts, light citric zest, grass.
Taste comprises mellow citric peel, pale malts, grass, herb, biscuit.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close.
Okay cask affair.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 13:33
6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hand pulled half pint in Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, Oakengates on 5th February 2025, just after buying a new (second hand) car. Light golden body, white crust. Citrus leanings in both the nose and taste, semi bitter and show casing the Amarillo and Mosaic hops, just enough malts to give a semblance of balance.
Tried
from Cask
at
Old Fighting Cocks
on 05 Feb 2025
at 15:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hand pulled half pint in the Blue Boar, Leicester mid afternoon on 21st January 2025. Deep amber body, clean and clear, beige crust on top. Malty, nutty and tasty, light bitterness from the hops, but a very pleasant Mild all round.
Tried
from Cask
at
Blue Boar
on 21 Jan 2025
at 15:00