Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Park Tavern - London. Pours clear, light amber-brown with a frothy white head. The nose holds toasty dough, grains and light pine. Light sweet flavor with notes of bread, toffee, grains, light chocolate and toffee, modest leafy bitterness, earth. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Pretty nicely balanced to finish with some toasted caramel, more grainy bread, ripening berries. Just a little watery but otherwise a highly serviceable bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at the People’s Park Tavern, 13/09/14. Clear copper amber with no head. Nose is toffee, biscuit malt, dark fruit rinds. Taste comprises orchard wood, toffee, malt, a little on the green side. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, semi drying close with light bitterings. A pretty muted affair ... yawn!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at the People’s Park Tavern, 13/09/14. Clear light golden with a moderate off white covering. Nose is thin, light citrics, bread dough, pale malt, melon. Taste comprises lemon rind, bitter orange, citric peel, bready notes. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. So so GB, yawn.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the People’s Park Tavern - London. Pours light yellow-gold with a white cream top. The aroma has some hay, biscuity pale bread. Light to medium sweet flavor with sun-kissed pale grains, light grass, straw, some orange rind. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation; good condition. Nicely balanced to finish with notes of ripe lemon, further citrus rind, pale biscuits. Not bad. Easygoing stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the People’s Park Tavern , 13/09/14. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a moderate light tan covering. Nose carries a nice level of coffee grinds, dark malt, toffee, chocolate. Taste carries a little less depth, spice, biscuit, coffee vibes, earthy roast, dirt. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a nice coffee kick. Decent enough coffee stout, best offering I’ve had from Laine’s I reckon.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the People’s Park Tavern - London. Pours deep brown with a bubbly, off-white head. Huge fresh espresso on the nose, with subtle roasted malt undertones. Light-medium sweet with more espresso, moderate roast, some burnt sugars, dry cocoa, coffee beans, some earthy bitterness, charred toast. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation; pretty good condition. Finishes with further rich espresso, mellow bitterness, cocoa, earth. Nice true espresso character.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at the People’s Park Tavern, 13/09/14. Clear pale golden with a moderate off white covering. Nose is light yeast, touch of banana, caramel, spice, straw. Taste comprises bready notes, citric peel, soft caramel notes, yeast tones. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, smei drying close with mellow bitterness. Ok cask pils.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the People’s Park Tavern. Pours mostly clear amber-gold with a weak white head. The aroma has ripe citrus, some lightly toasted pale malts. Light-medium sweet flavor with some doughy bread, berries, toasted, orange, slight grainy bread. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Sweet finish with hints of butter and dough, further ripe berries, bread, orange. OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the People’s Park Tavern. Pours perfecry clear gold with a foamy white head. Nice cereal and biscuit aroma, faint straw. Medium sweet flavor with simple pale bread, more cereal, sugar, minimal bitterness. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sugary pale bread finish with more basic cereal. Quite tasty and fairly impressive for a cask lager, but needs some bitterness for balance.