6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
On gravity at Bristol beer festival, 16/3/2013. Amber with a slight, off-white head. Sweet, caramel and red fruit aroma with some grassy hops. Flavour was also sweet, with cereal malts, more fruit and a moderately bitter finish. The programme notes referred to tropical and citrus fruit flavours and aroma, but I didn’t detect them. So so.
Tried
on 30 Mar 2013
at 00:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
On gravity at Bristol Beer Festival 16/3/2013. Hazy gold with a slight white head. Aroma of lemon, wheat grains and a touch of clove. Easy drinking, with more citrus notes, slightly bready malts and a spicy finish. A good interpretation of the style.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2013
at 08:38
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW, London. Pours cloudy gold with a fine, white foam head. Good hefeweizen nose, plenty of dough and yeast. Medium sweet flavor with more good dough, yeast, mild fruits. Good balance. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Dries out slightly in the finish; a nice British touch on the hefe style. Nice beer overall. Stays pretty true to the style and does so with some success.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Mar 2013
at 03:12
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at the Old Contemptibles, Birmingham. Poured a light amber with a bubbly white head and some broken lace. The aroma is grassy and slightly malty. The flavour is medium bitter, somewhat sharp, with hints of butter, toffee and caramel. The bitterness lingers into the aftertaste which is almost mandatory for a pale ale to deliver a really unusual and refreshing ale. Hats off to Bath Ales for daring to be different.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Mar 2013
at 09:01
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Graze, Bath. Pours clear, rich gold with a fine, white cream cap. Zesty ginger aroma with nips of doughy bread. Light sweet flavor, pale malts, lightly dry dough, some crackers and ginger snaps. Light in body with fine to average carbonation, clean, crisp finish with zippy ginger, dry doughy crackers and mellow, quenching straw bitterness. Quite a nice little ginger beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2013
at 11:17
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at Ales and Tails, Twickenham - 02/03/13. Lightly hazed amber with a food sized frothy off white head. Nose us caramel and toffee, biscuit, light spice. Taste comprises caramel malt, spice, fruits, touch of cereal. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, smooth and pleasant on the palate, bitterness in the finish. Drinkable average bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2013
at 04:37
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at The Salamander, Bath. Pours clear, light gold. Musty apples on the nose, some sweaty man. Light sweet with dry, semi-ripen apples, basement, light bitter apple peels. Light to medium bodied with no carbonation. Quite dry to finish with mellow warmth poking through, more sweat, basement. Not bad overall.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2013
at 03:43
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Connolly’s Wines, Solihull. Poured a slightly hazy light yellow colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is malty leading to a medium bitter flavour with a big malty palate which sticks around in the bitter aftertaste. It’s a pleasant ale, but a little bland and quickly became boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2013
at 15:33
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
50 cl bottle @ home. Rated on 19.02.2009
Aroma has hay, fruyity hops, some citrus and grapefruit. Flavour is somewhat hoppy with hay, citrus, grapefruit and herbal notes. Yet another golden ale.
Aroma has hay, fruyity hops, some citrus and grapefruit. Flavour is somewhat hoppy with hay, citrus, grapefruit and herbal notes. Yet another golden ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2013
at 07:52
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
[25/1/13: Cask at Graze, Bath. rb score 6/4/8/2/13 (3.3)] Pours a dark reddish-brown with a moderate cream head. Sweet with cream and butter to start (rather cloying in fact). Then there’s quite a heavy roasted malt bitterness - at this point I wasn’t really enjoying it. But then the flavours start to emerge - lots of chocolate, plums and raisins, and a fair bit of liquorice. It’s verging on being a porter, really, and it gradually grew on me. Apart from the mouthfeel, that is, which needs some work. Despite being a fairly decent pint overall, it failed to compensate for the shoddy, disorgainised, and very slow service in this venue. [22/1/2015: Cask at the Falcon, High Wycombe. rb score 6/4/7/4/14 (3.5)] Brown with a thick beige head. Rather sweet toffee up front with some leaf mulch, then a lovely rich roasty coffee. A little citrus in the finish and a lasting malt and coffee aftertaste. Good beer, definitely closer to to a porter than a bitter in my mind though. Overall score is the average of all rates.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Jan 2013
at 04:51