5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask ale, half pint at Cotswold Arms. Clear chestnut coloured body, bubbles on the surface, fragile lacing. Modest smell of herbal hops and grain. Ripe lemon to the taste character added by hints of biscuits. Drying close. Easy going. (Burford, Cotsworld 26.04.2025).
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Apr 2025
at 09:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
[Cask at the Greyfriar, Reading.] A pale chestnut pour with a tight cream head; aroma of purple fruit and malts; smooth in the mouth with a malty body, some prunes and raisins; then a tangy fruity sourness and a dry finish with some caramel. Very tasty.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Greyfriar
on 10 Apr 2025
at 14:29
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Half pint from the cask at the brewery. Pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, fruits, toasted grain & citrus. Moderate body. Light bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Mar 2025
at 15:17
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Half pint from the cask at the Nags Head, Abingdon. Pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of flora, honey, caramel, treacle, fruits & malt. Medium body. Dry moderate bitter finish
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Mar 2025
at 20:51
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Half pint from the cask at the Cotswold Arms, Burford. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of grapefruit, lemon, grain & hops. Moderate body. Crisp & slightly dry light bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Mar 2025
at 18:42
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Bottle from my brother for Xmas. Clear mid brown colour thin beige head. Malty ale yeast fruit aroma. Malty in the mouth. Some pepper hop finish. Hedgerow fruit and leaves. As a best bitter it's the kind of bitter I love. I love the taste of the malt. I like the hedgerow fruit the pepper hops. I bet this is great on cask. Must seek that out.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2025
at 21:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Melbicks Garden Centre, Coleshill. Clear light amber with small consistent white top, decent lacing. Aroma of sweet malts. grain, touch of marmalade, floral to herbal note. Taste of toasted malt, light diacetyl butter note but light enough to add to flavour rather than detract, some citrus. My issue is the finish has light herbal and spice notes and light bitterness - lacks an oomph for want of a better word even for a gold. Good body and smoothness for the strength though. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Connolly's Wine Merchants, online. Clear dark gold, small white head, some retention. Aroma of malts, straw and pear. Taste has a nice fruitiness to it with notes of pear, melon, citrus zest, malts, some biscuit. Light bodied, dry and bitter finish. Its a good gold.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at The Star, Oxford. Pours deep chestnut amber with beige foam. Aroma: malty, fruity. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, toasty malts, biscuit, malt-loaf, fruity, some toffee, earthy hop. Medium body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Nov 2024
at 22:48
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle kindly gifted to me by my neighbour randomly. Pours a clear but very dark copper brown, barely any head. Aroma of caramel and nutty/biscuity malts. Taste of nutty/biscuity and caramel malts, seems slightly sweet at first but finishes with a pretty strong bitterness. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2024
at 23:36