7/10
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Mar 2025
at 17:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at the Colmore, Bingohame, 27/02/2025.
Black with a thin tan head that clears to a swirl.
Nose is light smoke, treacle toffee, dried red berries, chocolate shavings.
Taste comprises dried fruit rinds, charr, lactic pinch, cocoa powder, light smoke, an almost peated note about it.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a light rising boost.
Passable sipper ... for £7 a third this really lacks depth and barrel profile.
Black with a thin tan head that clears to a swirl.
Nose is light smoke, treacle toffee, dried red berries, chocolate shavings.
Taste comprises dried fruit rinds, charr, lactic pinch, cocoa powder, light smoke, an almost peated note about it.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a light rising boost.
Passable sipper ... for £7 a third this really lacks depth and barrel profile.
Tried
on 27 Feb 2025
at 12:08
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Half cask at Head of Steam Sheffield. Cloudy golden pour, skin of fine foam, lacing. Faint stone fruit aromas. Taste is mildly fruit, nectarine and cereal. Nice consistency from the cask pour.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Head Of Steam - Sheffield
on 10 Feb 2025
at 19:27
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Gravity cask at The Boiler Room, Leamington Spa, 08/02/2025.
Hazed orange topped with an off white head that thins to a swirl.
Nose is freshly squeezed orange, grass, melon, papaya.
Taste comprises papaya, melon, hint of soap, orange peel.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close splashed with mellow hop btitterness.
Okay cask pale ... the light soapy edge knocks this one down a few points for me.
Hazed orange topped with an off white head that thins to a swirl.
Nose is freshly squeezed orange, grass, melon, papaya.
Taste comprises papaya, melon, hint of soap, orange peel.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close splashed with mellow hop btitterness.
Okay cask pale ... the light soapy edge knocks this one down a few points for me.
Tried
on 08 Feb 2025
at 15:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cask at Boiler Room; hazy yellow pout with a frothy white head, aroma has creamy peach, taste has peach, creamy malts, ok
Tried
from Cask
at
Boiler Room
on 08 Feb 2025
at 12:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Handpull cask at the Ribs of Beef, Norwich. Mid-brown and translucent with an uneven ring of beige head. Sweet chocolate fudge aroma. Sweet taste, lots of chocolate throughout, and just enough bitterness at the end to remind you that you are drinking a beer. Yeah, I'm fond of this.
Tried
from Cask
at
Ribs Of Beef
on 02 Feb 2025
at 15:19
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught keg at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester city centre. Mid-gold and hazy with a quickly dissipating white head. Big sweaty apricot, vanilla aroma. Big apricot taste. Cracking malt notes, a sweetness that gives way to hite grapefruit bitterness. Medium thickness to the body with decent but not overly invasive carbonation. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
at
Real Ale Classroom - City Centre
on 28 Jan 2025
at 19:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester city centre. Mid- to dark hazy Gold with an uneven loose white head. Dank aroma with stone and orchard fruits, some papaya. Sweet taste, lots of fruity Hop Matching the lush aroma. A little gentle bitterness in the finish. More papaya in the attertaste. Medium body, no carbonation. A very nice little pale.
Tried
from Cask
at
Real Ale Classroom - City Centre
on 28 Jan 2025
at 18:07
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 6
Hand-pulled half-pint in the Blue Boar, Leicester mid-afternoon on 21st January 2025. Light golden body, slight haze, white head. Just a little more malty than hop bitter, semi-sweet with a mild citrus leaning, body feel is fairly thin.
Tried
from Cask
at
Blue Boar
on 21 Jan 2025
at 15:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
440ml can in the Wheeltapper, Loughborough on 20th January 2025, my 'Night Cap'. Murky Damson red, wispy pink head. Vanilla sweetness verses semi-sour Damsons with crumble to the side. Interesting and different, Good Night!
Tried
from Can
at
Wheeltapper
on 20 Jan 2025
at 23:00