Swale Indian Summer

Formerly brewed at Whitstable
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Maidstone, England

16.9 oz bottle 4/00-Pours a dark golden/light amber with a small white head. Aroma of citrus, hops, and slight sourness. Taste of fruit, malt, citrus, and sweetness. This medium bodied brew was well balanced and a nice drinking beer. Was surprised.

Bottle and served in a no-nik pint glass; Pours a clean golden hue with a small but mostly lasting white head and okay lace. The aroma has notes of mint leaves, mild citric and floral hops, biscuity malt, hint of oncoming oxidation, and a vapour of dusty yeast esters. The taste is mildly fruity with a equally mild pale malt background, very good balance and the best part of this brew. The finish does have a subdued papery condition which would be caused by age, but the store just got these in so I dunno, perhaps setting at customs too long? The aftertaste has some citric and astringent qualities. Thin-bodied and watery mouth feel is the biggest problem with this beer. Not the best example of a session ale but is drinkable.

Bottle. Poured clear copper color with an average rocky off-white head that was mostly lasting and produced good lacing. Moderate hoppy sour citrus aroma. Medium smooth body with a soft texture. Moderate bitter citrus flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Solid drinkable beer.

So I scored this 500ml bottle but it may have some age on it. No date on it. Poured into a tulip glass with a big frothy head. Color is murky dark amber, no clarty in the beer and very little translucence. Aroma is strong - meaty slighty oxidized, sour tangerine with lots of sweetness. Taste is rather empty no recognizable affects of age though. Leaves no aftertaste, no bitterness. Medium body.

Cask handpump. Amber with a short head. Floral and some simple fruits in the aroma and a slight bitterness. Quite thin and boring.

bottle from chevy chase. pours a clear light amber, very big white head. this is very highly carbonated, like a sparkling ale would be. aroma is intense fruity malt: apricot, pear, caramel...no real hop aroma. medium body, nice malty backbone, with a clean finish, albeit a little sweet. definitely get the impression that the hop bite was lost in long storage...there’s very little hop character at all.

Bottle. Small white head that was mostly lasting, sparse lacing, fine-small sized head, carbonated, hazy, yeasty, and a yellow golden hue. Aroma was malty, lightly hoppy and sweet. Bitter, hoppy flavor. Tingly palate. Light-medium body.

This bottled brew poured a small sized head of frothy mostly diminishing white colored bubbles that left behind a good lacing. The body contained average carbonation, was hazy with yeast floaties and its color was unnoted. Its aroma contained notes of a notable amount of malts that made its presence known with mild hop content. Its mouth feel is initially slightly tingly and hoppy. Its flavor contained thin malts with caramel and hop notes.