5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask@GBBF2009. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is honey, wood, earth and also some slight burnt sugary notes. Flavour is earth, gops, wood and some fruits. Standard bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Aug 2009
at 06:29
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Cask@GBBF 2009. Deep amber color, small beige head. Caramel and diacetyl in the aroma. Flavor has vegetables, light caramel and grassy hops. Very watery. More or less a beer to have only once.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Aug 2009
at 15:20
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma of grassy hops with some sulphur. Grassy sweet flavour with sulphur. Decent bitter finish.
Tried
on 30 Jul 2009
at 03:48
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned at the Royal Oak, Bath 18/07/09. Quercus produced a festival special called "Julian House" for the RO, but the descriptions here look very similar and the ABV was the same, so I am rating it here. Copper coloured with a slight, off-white head. Fruity malts, with a hint of citrus and earthy hops, ending bitter. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jul 2009
at 15:18
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy, chunky copper and brown coloured body with a super-thin slightly off-white head; a bunch of sediment in this one, and it pours still, but has a bit of carbonation, so it seems. Aroma of apples, nuts, caramel, toffee, light hops, roasted malt, yeast and some peanut butter - a ton of various smells in this one! Medium-bodied; Strong astringent hoppiness in the taste mellows out to a nutty finish with some of the caramel and toffee tastes. Aftertaste shows a lot of metallic hop bitterness with yeast and perhaps some more hops. Still in the taste and throughout - no carbonation at all it doesn’t seem. Actually, it seems like it’s from the cask, but it’s poured from a bottle, and on the other side of the Atlantic! I sampled this 500 mL bottle purchased from the Utobeer Market Stall in Borough (London), England on 29-November-2008, sampled at home in Washington on 18-April-2009.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2009
at 00:24
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ GBBF 2008. Pours a slightly hazy pale golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma. Fruity malty hoppy citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Apr 2009
at 09:05
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
bottle, Darts Farm Exeter. Hazy golden yellow, small head. Malty, intensively hoppy. Very aromatic hops with a medium to high bitterness. Slightly fruity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2008
at 13:21
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle, picked up from the Vale Brewery, 25-10-08, consumed 26-10-08 Pours golden with white head. Fairly predictable that this was going to be fruity, bit citrusy, tangy, hoppy and bitter, no problem with that at all, its just that it was like so many others of this ilk, distinctly average and afraid to be different.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2008
at 17:03
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.Clear light to medium yellow orange color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, citrus, moderate yeasty, horse blanket. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (060808)
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Oct 2008
at 04:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Angry fist of Santa tasting at Chris_o’s. Hazy orange gold, thin off whtie head. Everyone says it’s diacetyl, I got some popcorn. I quite liked it.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2008
at 14:16