6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at Imperial, Worcester. Pours a hazy golden amber with minimal white head. There’s a vaguely antiseptic aroma – but it’s a pleasant one ! In the mouth it is sweet and uicy with summer fruits to the fore. After a while traditional hops start to assert themselves, plus pine, grains and a hint of malts. Finish is slightly bitter. This is a reasonable beer – though I would class it more as a “hoppy golden ale” than a straight IPA.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 May 2022
at 22:46
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Bird in Hand, Stafford. Pours a dark mahogany with a medium cream / tan head. Roast malts and caramel in the aroma plus hints of chocolate. Liquorice is the most prominent flavour in the mouth, together with malts and parkin. There’s a distinct smokiness to the whole caboodle as well. Later on there are traces of dark fruits and the finish is quite bitter. This is quite nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Feb 2022
at 21:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Craven Arms, Birmingham. Poured almost black in colour with a mostly lasting frothy off-white head. The aroma is roasty malt, light caramel. The flavour is moderate to light liqourice bitter, with a smooth, light, roasty, yeasty, light caramel, smoky, liqourice bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
at
Craven Arms
on 03 Jan 2022
at 21:56
6/10
Tried
on 26 Dec 2021
at 13:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Handpull cask at the Kings Head, Leicester. Light to mid-gold with a thin white head. It's got an aroma of hay, ammonia and TCP. Sounds less pleasant than it is. Sweet taste with the sour medicinal notes typical of the English IPA. Long ammonia-laden finish. A bit too old-fashioned for the likes of me but it's a decent beer overall.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Nov 2020
at 16:45
5/10
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Aug 2018
at 19:15
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2015 [ The 40th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 8th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Newbridge Solaris ].Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity, moderate yeasty, UK yeast. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, UK yeast, pale malt, plastic notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20151009] 6-3-5-3-10
Tried
from Cask
on 28 May 2017
at 06:24
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2015 [ The 40th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 8th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Newbridge Indian Empire ].Clear medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, caramel, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, pale malt, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20151009] 6-3-6-3-13
Tried
from Cask
on 28 May 2017
at 04:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at 4.7% at the Queens Head, Wordsley. Pours dark gold with a small head. Aroma is eggy straw and lemon. Taste is sweet and grainy with lemon on the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Oct 2016
at 08:31
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Hand-pulled cask pint in the Pheasant, Wellington Shropshire: 5th Sep 2016. Clear golden pour, white head. A decent blend of light maltiness and bittering hops, liked the fact it had no citrus edge to it.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Sep 2016
at 07:57