5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Keighley Beer Festival. Copper coloured, no head. Has a sweet aroma with a bitter-sweet taste.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2013
at 14:32
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Ginger Goose, Bradford. Golden with a creamy head and mild malts for its character.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2013
at 15:34
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Gryphon, Bristol 19/9/2013. Deep gold with a tight, off-white head. A strange mix of sulphur, earthy malts and sweetish hedgerow fruit, which somehow offset one another to produce a quaffable pint. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Sep 2013
at 13:12
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Burnley Beer Festival. A medium bodied golden ale without a head. Has a bitter-sweet character.
Tried
on 07 Sep 2013
at 09:52
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is buttery grass. Taste has sweet and tangy lemon to start and a straw malt finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2013
at 12:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the City Arms, Cardiff. Pours dark orange with a small head. Aroma is sulphur, bready malt and raisin. Taste is bready malt throughout with a bitter finish. Touch of toffee.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2013
at 13:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Part of the breweries ’World Leaders’ series: this one is an IPA using Progress hops and Optic malt. I’ve had a gravity poured half-pint at a Beer Festival (17 Aug 2013) and a hand-pulled half-pint in Ye Olde Robin Hood, a Holden’s owned pub in Ironbridge today (19 Aug 2013). Good golden hue to the yellow, bright body, steady white crown on both beers. Hop domination in the dry taste and cereal nose: fairly bitter and intense dryness towards the end of each sip. Body depth was fine and the beer although more hoppy than malty was a well thought out blend of flavours and completely different to the regular beers that Holdens brew.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2013
at 13:16
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Cask at Gallow’s Bird, Espoo. Originally rated 21012012. Colour is black with tiny head. Aromas and flavours: Chocolate, yeast and malts.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Aug 2013
at 08:57
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Great Western, Wolverhampton. First stop of the RB Black Country Bus Bash. Pours clear gold with a light, white foam head. Mild citrusy hop character, some dry bready malts sweetness. Light in body with fine carbonation. Lightly sweet to finish with dry, pale bread, some citrus rind. Tasty. A very serviceable bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Aug 2013
at 15:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Great Western, Wolverhampton. Black country beer bash. Golden colour with a persistent white head. Honey nutty malt aroma. Lightly carbed. Slightly grassy grass. some oxidised.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jul 2013
at 14:02