Uley Old Spot Prize Ale

Brewed by Uley
Style: Old Ale
Uley, England

Cask at the White Horse, Parsons Green with tashi, 14th May 09. Deep ruby amber. Sweet malty taste. A warm, drinkable beer.

[cask at North Wiltshire Beer Festival] Syrupy, slight bitterness, rather watery for the style. Having said that, it was the last pint before they took the barrel off so perhaps not the best time to judge it...

Cask at GBBF 2007, CBoB firkin. A hazy dark amber beer. The aroma is sweet mlaty with primary notes of caramel combined with light notes of hops and grass. The flavor is sweet - but a very light sweet note, combined with notes of caramel and bisquits towards the finish, which is slightly bitter.

Orange-brick coloured, pretty still and almost headless. This is a straight-on fruity ale, think apricot and peaches. Its aroma is very juicy at that, but there is a small toasty undertone to it. Rather sugary palate remains quite light in size, but the absence of carbonation makes its caramel notes appear like mountains over which apple trees are commanding. Average.

Gravity, Masons Arms, Oxford. Dark copper, just a stray bubble or two. Sour, ocean apple and caramel aroma. Pleasant earthy caramel flavor, faint biscuit finish. Velvety softness to the palate. Liquid silk. If the rest of this beer measured up to the palate—wow.

Copper red colour with no head. Malt and grass in the aroma. Malt and grain flavour, rather sweet.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2007, London. Light unclear amber color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty , toasted, butter, brown sugar. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a average duration. (Sugar sweet) Body is medium, texture is creamy, carbonation is flat.

Cask@GBBF2007. Deep amber colour, small head. Aroma is unflavoured yoghurty sourness along with wood and slight fruityness and earth. Flavour is pretty much the same with some caramel in it. The caramel also stays for long in the aftertaste.