7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap @ the Haymarket Bar, Edinburgh. Pours golden with a nice head and just a little haze. The nose is citrus, lemon mostly with just a little of the malt coming through as a hay note. The taste has more of the same as well as a meadow flowers note. The palate is medium bodied and textured with a a clean zingy finish. Good pale ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Sep 2012
at 13:23
6/10
29/8/2012. Cask at The Dove Street Inn Olympic Celebration Beer Festival.
Tried
from Cask
at
Dove Street Inn
on 28 Aug 2012
at 23:00
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A pale with good nose and threatens a fruit explosion in its taste, but fails to deliver.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2012
at 18:00
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Two hand pulled pints in ’The Anchor’, Shrewsbury on 4th Aug 2012. Brewed for the London Olympics and golden in colour. Bright and sparkling, with a good creamy head on each pour which gave off some thick lacing as the beer level sank. Hops more than malts in the nose and taste, light and refreshing without upsetting your taste buds in any way. A pleasant session ale and just what i wanted at the time.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2012
at 08:34
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Half, cask, hand-pulled at The Brewery Tap in Leeds. Clear copper coloured body. Creamy white head. Fruity malts to the nose. Citrus fruity taste with hints of caramel malts. Bittersweet tail. Soft in the mouth. Quite alright. (08.07.2012).
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2012
at 09:28
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Half pint, cask served chilled at The Brewery Tap in Leeds. Nitro, white head. Pale golden body. Laces well. Lightly fruity to the nose. Wheat-fruity with a touch of grain in flavour followed by mild bitter endnotes. Standard, food friendly (08.07.2012).
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2012
at 09:26
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draught, half pint at The Brewery Tap in Leeds. Clear straw yellow coloured body. Bare naked surface. Modest smell of dry lemon. Citric fruits in flavour on a pale malty backbone. Semi-dry ending. Clean and soft in the mouth. Accepted (08.07.2012).
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2012
at 09:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Served on cask into an English half jug at the Sussex Arms, Twickenham Green (Jan ’12). Copper brown in colour with a thin tan head. Aroma comes across as vaguely citrus, but not too strong, also malt on the nose. In the taste, light roasting, slight chocolate, didn’t get any sense of the citrus. A woody/earthy bitter hop taste on the palate. Medium to light in body with a bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Aug 2012
at 11:47
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask dispense into a UK half pint jug at the Sussex Arms, Twickenham Green, (Feb ’12). Pours to a rich mid black colour with a small off-white/beige head. (Head lasted fairly well throughout drinking!) Dry roasted malt aroma with background smell of bitter chocolate and a tiny whiff of coffee, but definately more cocoa heavy than coffee! Tastes pretty much mirrored the above stated flavours, though I would add a little hint of dried berry fruit in the taste and also quite a sweet flavour (malt bases) that the bitter chocolate smell didn’t indicate! Mouthfeel was a little watery for my liking and not robust enough! Dryish aftertaste. Overall - an OK stout but no world beater !
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Aug 2012
at 04:31
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Diggers
Dark brown, creamy white head with good lacing
Aroma - dark caramel malts..slight vegetal (but not in an awful way)
Taste - dark caramel malts...very malty...soft burnt roast...bit of coffee...some dark fruity malt in there...hint of soft coffee
Palate - soft carb...medium body...soft smooth texture...soft finish as main flavour
Overall - Really soft and easy to drink - it’s more a hybrid porter old ale to me
Dark brown, creamy white head with good lacing
Aroma - dark caramel malts..slight vegetal (but not in an awful way)
Taste - dark caramel malts...very malty...soft burnt roast...bit of coffee...some dark fruity malt in there...hint of soft coffee
Palate - soft carb...medium body...soft smooth texture...soft finish as main flavour
Overall - Really soft and easy to drink - it’s more a hybrid porter old ale to me
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jul 2012
at 14:32