6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Half pint, reviewed at the Great British Beer Festival 4th Aug 2010. This beer is dry hopped and has five different varieties in the brew. The colour is a pleasant reddy amber, the head almost pure white, but not quite. Hops dominate the smell, but not enough to put you off trying to find other notes (none of which I could find). The taste has a hoppy bite which gets stronger all the time the beer is in the mouth, and also as the mouth dries in the aftertaste. There is a malt input, but very mild in strength, nicely blended, but a beer with more hops than malts within.
Tried
on 18 Apr 2012
at 01:02
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask at Wandsworth Beer Festival, March 2012. It pours hazy golden yellow, with a thin white head and suspended particles. The nose is butter, hay and some sulphur (so not great!). The taste is butter/diacetyl, straw, corn, cereal, some sweet tinned fruit and citrus pith, with dryness in the finish. Medium body and low carbonation. Not much flavour and what there is I don’t like!
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Apr 2012
at 04:48
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Wandsworth Common Spring BF, London. Pours a very cloudy gold with a foamy, white head. Light tangy nose of hay and dough. Light sweet flavor with tons of diacetyl, buttery dough, hay. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly sweet on the finish with more doughy bread, biscuits, butter, and faint hay bitterness. A little diacetyl is alright and can indeed enhance a beer’s character, but this beer has too much. Somewhat mediocre.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Mar 2012
at 01:03
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask gravity @ Battersea BF 2012. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Feb 2012
at 03:24
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury. Mahogany colour. Caramelly nose. Sweet with medium body. Mildly hopped with plenty of buttery caramel. Low bitterness. Buttery caramel is not my thing.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Dec 2011
at 23:46
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On gravity at Swindon beer festival, 27/10/2011. Amber with a slight, off-white head. Aroma of sweetish malts, with some hedgerow fruit and grassy hops. Flavour had some robust malts, touch of fruit and decent bitter finish. Good.
Tried
on 29 Oct 2011
at 10:10
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
4th August 2011
GBBF. Cask. Clear gold beer, residual suddy white head. Trace of sulphur on the nose and in the beer. Light dry palate. Minerals. A little citrus. Overdry finish. Not great!
GBBF. Cask. Clear gold beer, residual suddy white head. Trace of sulphur on the nose and in the beer. Light dry palate. Minerals. A little citrus. Overdry finish. Not great!
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Oct 2011
at 08:38
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
4th August 2011
GBBF. Cask. Light sulphur on the nose but mercifully not in the beer! Clear amber coloured with a suddy off white head. Mild toffee in the malt. A little fresh hop. Over dry finish. Meh!
GBBF. Cask. Light sulphur on the nose but mercifully not in the beer! Clear amber coloured with a suddy off white head. Mild toffee in the malt. A little fresh hop. Over dry finish. Meh!
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Oct 2011
at 08:32
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at GBBF 2011, Day 2. Pours rich gold with a foamy head. Wood and toast in the nose. Mild sweet flavor, note character of toast and dough, very light tangy bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Wet hay and dough in the finish. Alright.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Sep 2011
at 03:41
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at GBBF 2010. An amber beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel, leading to a dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Jul 2011
at 14:26