Sarah Hughes Sedgley Surprise

Cask gravity at St Albans BF 09. Gold, slight haze, thin white head. Pretty good premium golden ale. Good fullness on the pale malts. Decent biscuit flavour. Some citrus fruityness on finish. Little hop bitterness but good citrusy furit. Fine.

Slightly sweet, in the Black Country style, but with some hops as well. Nice body, and very moreish. It varies in quality, due to climatic conditions and subtle variations in the recipe, as befits an artisanal product. Martin, the new brewer, is doing a good job. This is my wife’s favourite draught beer, and I agree that it deserves a platform similar to the famous Dark Ruby.

Cask at aberdeen Beer festival ... Very golden yellow ... Light fruity ... little caramel ... littl floral orange

Cask in the three judges. Aroma is pale malts, nutty and peppery, theres some roasty character too but its a very pale beer. Taste is similar, it seems darker than what it actually is.

Cask, gravity at Milton Keynes Beer Festival ’07. Gold. Nutty malt aroma and taste with bready background and a little fruit. Medium bitter finish. Quite interesting.

Cask Pale orange beer with B.C."H.". Very subdued nose, with just some unspecific malts. Very malty, even patisserie flavours, cookie notes, with a rather good UK hops ending. Light to medium bodied, rather thin for S. Hughes habits. Very surprising indeed, but all in all a nice beer.

Cask Handpump at the Fly In The Loaf, Liverpool 28/08/2006 Golden coloured smooth and slightly rich on the palate. Malty and fruity with some dryness and bitterness in the finish.

Cask (gravity) at the Harrington Arms Festival, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, August 2005. Reasonably robust brown ale, fat fruity nose, sweet tempered bitterness. Pleasant stuff.