EB GBBF2018

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Sample@GBBF2018, London, with the Malmö crew - dark brown pour with a beige head. Toasty and sweet malty with some caramel, toffee, light cocoa, nuts, medium body, brown sugar, sweet and toasted malty finish.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

290ml bottle [another Grumbonian gift - thanks!]. Cloudy, orangey amber colour with with small, frothy to creamy, diminishing, minimally lacing, white head. Perfumed, floral-herbal-spicy and nutty aroma, notes of petals, coniferes, oak, hints of chestnut, some rye spiciness; Taste is dry, oaky, floral-herbal-spicy, hints of petals, a touch of lavender, underlying hints of chestnut. Quite unusual, very interesting composition.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Cask at GBBF '18, day 2, 08/08/18. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a decent beige cap. Nose is tangy dark fruits, brown bread, oak, toffee, light charr. Taste comprises dates, fruit loaf, toffee, light smoke, grains. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Decent enough for the style.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2018 - Day 1 🇬🇧 [ Great British Beer Festival 2018 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.

[ As Alpha-Beta D - Oak Ale ].
ABV: 4.3%. Clear light dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark malt, chocolate malt, nutty, dusty. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, malt bitter, sweet malt, dark malt, chocolate malt, smoke - ash - oak notes. IMO: a bit odd ! Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20180807]
6-3-6-3-13

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at the GBBF 2018 day 5 11/08/2018. A a nut brown orange coloured pour with a light off white head. Aroma is sweet brown sugars, smoke, phenols. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, simple smoked,, chalk, dired toffee apple. Palate is sweet and sugars, moderate carbonation.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

7th August 2018
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Almost clear amber - brown beer, small pale tan head. Smooth and semi dry palate, modest fine carbonation. Mildly sweet brown malts, little earthyness. Touch of tangy fruits. Esters. Dry finish brings a suggestion of wood. No oaky goodness here.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2017 [ The 42th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 10th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB.

[ As Alpha-Beta W - Wild Hop Rye ].
ABV: 5.8%. Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, open and frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, rye, sweet malt, dusty, earthy. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration, sweet fruit, sweet malt, rye, dusty, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20171013]
6-3-7-3-13

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Keg at LBA. It pours hazy straw yellow with a medium white head. The aroma is fresh, doughy white bread, grassy, weedy, spice, earth and leather. The taste is crisp, dry, straw, grassy bit of spice, earth, floral and peppery spice we other a firmly dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Nice lager bier.