7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
18/4/2025. Cask at Briarbank’s Spring Beer Festival, Ipswich.
Tried
from Cask
at
Briarbank Bar & Brewery
on 18 Apr 2025
at 15:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
23/3/2025. Cask at The Blackfriars Tavern, Great Yarmouth.
Tried
from Cask
at
Blackfriars Tavern
on 23 Mar 2025
at 17:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tried
from Draft
from
Beer Hatch
on 21 Mar 2025
at 20:23
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
7/2/2025. Cask at the 15th Elysian Winter Beer Festival. Pours clear mid brown with a small frothy off-white to beige head Aroma is charred, woody, burnt rubber, smoked, citrus, chocolate. Moderate sweetness, quite bitter and smoked. Medium body, slight oily and watery, soft carbonation. Drying orange woody finish. It’s okay.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Feb 2025
at 18:08
4/10
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Feb 2025
at 13:49
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
Cask at Crewe Dog, Crewe. Pours a slightly hazy golden yellow with a small foamybalmost white head and good lacing. The aroma has malts and berry fruits. In the mouth it is sweet and smooth with a creamy texture, but a little underlying bitterness. Flavour has floral hops and biscuits with hints of corn and tangerine. Bitterness is more pronounced in the slightly dry finish. It’s reasonable – but not particularly exciting.
Tried
from Cask
at
Crewe Dog
on 29 Jan 2025
at 13:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Wellington, Birmingham. Clear amber with small off-white head. There are citric and grapefruit notes with some strawberry and a leafy bitterness. Smooth body, semi-drying. It's ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Handpull cask at the Two-Tailed Lion. Reddish amber, clear with a smallkhaki head. Malty aroma with light caramel notes in the aroma. I'm trying to find any 'breakfast' notes... maybe a hint of coffee and maple syrup, or am I imagining this? Sweet taste, again very malty with a string bittering hops at the end of the sip. Nicely bitter finish. An elegant ESB.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Nov 2024
at 18:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at The Wellington, Brum. Aroma is fruity. Slightly resinous. A veg soup undertow. Clear gold. Thin foamy translucent white head develops a bald spot. Light-medium bitter. Resin/quinine. Followed by spicy marmalade citrus and other fruit. A powdery breakfast cereal element appears into the finish. Medium bodied. Oily. Flat carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. Odd stuff. Like a collision between a US IPA and a golden ale. Confused (me).
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Oct 2024
at 18:01
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Crewe Dog, Crewe. Pours a golden orange with a small off-white head and good lacing. The aroma has malts and nuts with a hint of citrus. In the mouth bitter hoppiness is predominant with a creamy texture, and some orange flavour. Hints too of ginger and spice, leading to a bitter and slightly dry finish. This is decent. Although it calls itself an APA, I would say it is more in the region of an IPa or ISA or even a Premium Bitter. It certainly isn’t pale !
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Aug 2024
at 20:41