Oakham JHB Extra

Sampled at the Medway Beer Festival 2007 - Another hoppy, citrusy and bitter pale ale sort of brew. Very drinkable and very tasty. A good session beer.

Gravity, Oxford CAMRA beer festival. Straw gold, nice soapy white head. A rather aggresive dose of sulfur to begin with, though it fades with a little breathing. Cinnamon and orange peel show up under the sulfur. Lovely fine textured dry citrus bitterness, refreshing and bright. Just a hint of toast in the finish. A little cleaner nose and this would be brilliantly good beer.

Cask at Oxford Beer Festival 11-10-07 Poured a real pale golden colour, in fact a very light colour. Aroma was surprisingly sulphurous in fact really quite eggy indeed. There was a real flurry of hops initially the bitterness didn’t show immediately, rather like the dog lying in wait for the postman it bit when you thought you were home and dry and had got to the gate, the resulting bitter bite then hung around for a while. This was a very good beer but not quite what I expected.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 2     Pale Yellow(1)->Dark brown(5) : 1     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 3   White(1)->Tan(5) : 1   Lasting: 2   Lacing : 2
Aroma:
Intensity : XX  
Yeast : XX   Bread : 3   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Soap : XX   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX Sulfur : XX  
Malt : 3   Biscuity : XX   Hay : 2   Toasty : XX   Caramel : XX   Nuts : XX   Honey : XX   Cereals : 2   Grainy : 2
Hops : 4   Noble(1)->American(5) : 2   Leafy : 2   Spicy : 3   Floral : 4   Lemon/Lime : 4   Grapefruit : 3   Orange : XX   Herbal : XX   Grassy : 2   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX  
Notes :   Peach/Apricot : XX   Earth : XX   Mint : XX   Butterscotch : XX   Smoke : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Sourness : XX   Bitterness : 2   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 3   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2   Clean : XX   Sharp : XX   Watery : XX   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : 1   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: A successful stronger version, zesty, fresh and lively, perhaps a bit fuller bodied even.

Blackriers. Aroma is citrsus and florual, super hoppy and amazing. Taste is similar, dry citeus hopo, grassy and fliuyral again, realkly good sessio ale.