5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle from Home Bargains, Salford. Clear paler golden with a head. The helles styling is fairly stated and decent here, it's just lacking the ooomf of the alcohol content from the original version, as such there's little flavour found as it slips down the palate. Not bad though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2022
at 18:41
Tried
on 14 Sep 2022
at 13:07
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from the Low Cost Beer online shop. BBE July 2022. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of resinous hops and pine, marmalade. Taste is more of the same. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2022
at 18:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Rocky white head on a dark golden coloured body. Pine, resinous, marmalade & Parma violet sweets aroma. Medium bodied, smooth soft & clean. Malt, pine, resinous & orange tastes with a bitter hopped up finish. Proper West Coast & just how I like them - Excellent.
Tried
on 08 Sep 2022
at 21:28
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
330ml bottle, drank at home on 12th August 2022. Slight haze to the golden body, snow white crown, but short lived. It's malty in the nose and taste, yet dry in the mouth with a subtle hop bitterness in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2022
at 07:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[33cl can from Home Bargains, Bracknell.] A slightly hazy pale straw coloured pour with a loose white head; gentle pineapple aroma; light biscuity body with a pineapple taste; then a bready finish. Very drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jul 2022
at 18:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Pup and Duckling, Solihull. Poured a clear dark brown colour with a lasting frothy tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, liqourice. The flavour is moderate liqourice bitter, with a smooth, rich, roasty, light caramel, chocolate, light dry ashtray, liqourice bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Pup & Duckling
on 07 Jul 2022
at 19:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
[33cl can from Home Bargains, Bracknell.] A hazy amber pour with a loose white head; fresh fruity aroma; refreshing biscuity malt body with some mandarin and blueberry; and a dry finish with a fresh leafy bitterness. An excellent pale ale, much better than expected from a bargain store.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jun 2022
at 17:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Home bazargains. It pours lightly hazy yellow - blonde with a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is fresh doughy white bread, lemon curd, custard cream biscuits, grassy, honeysuckle and daisies. The taste is crisp, dry, some bitterness, grassy, herbal, floral, straw, doughy white bread, cracker, light biscuit and a nip of peppery spice with a firm dry, grassy finish. Average body and moderate, fluffy carbonation. Flavourful, dry and moreish m rather quaffable.
Tried
from Can
on 25 May 2022
at 16:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Homebargains Inverurie (so wasn't expecting too much...). It pours lightly hazy golden - amber with a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is fresh, clean, bright, nice piney hops, zingy citrus, orange, grapefruit, tangerine, apricot, and some biscuit. The taste is crisp, firmly dry, pleasing bitterness which lingers throughout, touch green, piney action, peppery snap, pithy, zesty, orange, grapefruit, touch of campari, papaya and a touch of sweet biscuity malt. Finish is firmly dry. Medium body and moderate, fluffy carbonation. Hits the spot with that west coast pale vibe. Quenching and moreish. A bargain at this price.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Apr 2022
at 12:56