7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Great Western, Wolverhampton. Pours golden yellow with a medium sized off-white head and good lacing. There’s an attractive aroma of honey, summer fruits and hints of citrus. In the mouth it is sweet and juicy with just a smidgen of bitterness. Flavour has floral hops, malts and honey with a little herbal influence coming through after a while. Finish is slightly dry. This is decent, nice and refreshing.
Tried
from Cask
at
Great Western Arms (Holdens)
on 07 Jul 2025
at 14:30
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Amber gold with a frothy / creamy white head and lemons, floral hops and malt on the nose. Has a big slug of hop bitterness up front, malty with citrus and floral notes and a dry bitter finish
Tried
from Cask
at
Prince of Wales
on 02 Jul 2025
at 16:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Hand pulled pint at the Pheasant Inn, Wellington on 14th June 2025 after the Midsummer Fayre. Clean golden body, snow white crown. Dry and hop bitter, some fruity traces but its all about the dryness.
Tried
from Cask
at
Pheasant
on 14 Jun 2025
at 14:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 5.5
Bottle at home having spent 4 hours at a drama review featuring the youngest. This was necessary. Perhaps served a touch too warm? Rich malts, balanced hops and a slight (only slight) taste of vomit. Ok, but not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2025
at 17:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A day working from home after 4 days in the City and I needed this beer. In honour of this I opened up The Fat Lads' Arms - the pub at the bottom of my garden. Great pour and a real yeastiness to the nose. A really rich taste and mouthfeel and you can taste the alcohol. Really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2025
at 18:04
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Hand pulled pint on 7th February 2025 at the Pheasant Inn and Brewhouse, Wellington, Shropshire. Ruby hue to the brown/bronze body, beige crust. Toffee like aroma and taste, but not overly sweet, the hops giving plenty of bitterness and some balance.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Feb 2025
at 18:00
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Dark brown with a ruby tinge and a frothy/creamy tan head. Sweet malt and toffee on the nose, light bodied with a fruity freshness, treacle toffee and dry bitterness up front, earthy hops and roasted malt make an appearance before a dry finish
Tried
from Cask
at
Prince of Wales
on 14 Jan 2025
at 17:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at Wellington, Birmingham. Clear dark gold/light amber with small white top. This one had a malty biscuit base with floral and bitter lemon notes. Light to medium bodied and a soft carbonation. Very average in some ways but it grew on me - it has a certain old style session quality to it which I like.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:05
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Connolly's Wine Merchants. Pours a clear amber with small white head. Aroma of malts, some flora and spice but fairly inconspicuous. Taste of malts, quite floral and bitter, resin, orange sweets, light to medium bodied. Mediocre, probably better on cask if kept well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Connolly's Wine Merchant's. Pours deep ruby with small beige head. Aroma of chocolate, nuts, light roastiness. Taste has a dry roastiness with nuts, some sweetness, hint of caramel, some herbal bitterness. Light bodied, refreshing. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:02