Hambleton Stud

pale yellow with a thin head and lacing on the glass. Grassy aroma of hops with a hint of citrus. Citrus and a hint of treacle in the flavour slightly fizzy.

1. Cask Handpump at the Mill Hotel, Chester 05/04/2008 Malt aroma. Small white head. Golden coloured smooth on the palate fruity and slightly wheaty with a little bitterness in a crisp malt finish. 2. Cask Stillage at the GBBF Earl’s Court, London 09/08/2008 Golden coloured hoppy and slightly sweet on the palate. Crisp and bitter lasting malt finish. 3. Cask Handpump at the Lord Rosebery JDW, Scarborough 08/02/2009 Fruit and hop aromas. White head. Golden coloured and hoppy with a little dryness in a crisp malt finish.

Bottle. High and creamy lasting white head. Clear yellow body. Weak fruity hay malt aroma. Malty grassy flavor with a fair amount of hops bitterness. Low carbonation. Long dry and dusty bitter aftertaste.

Cask, handpumped half pint at The Cloister Bar in Edinburgh early on a Sunday afternoon. Clear copper-golden body, sparse head, but good lacing on the glass. Fruitlike caramel smell and flavour. Finish off with a citric bitter touch [26.10.2008].

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden with a fully gone head. Smooth bitter and mild malt flavoured. Light butterish. Mild fruity and hoppy finish. Nice one.

A Mes rate: gravicask at GBBF.
Yellow gold with a thin bubbly rim. Diacetyl ridden and full of bready malt. Shocking stuff and well out of order.

Cask@GBBF2008. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is vanilla, nectar, mild oak and caramel. Flavour is dry wood, caramel and nectar. Pleasant and actually quite refreshing.

Cask at the GBBF 2008. Golden colour, minimal head. Lovely strong aroma of butterscotch and caramel. The flavour has notes of butterscotch and malts, but is still fairly dry, with a reasonably hoppy finish.