A new beer for me found at Party Source Beverages...right there...on the shelf.
Caramel-amber ale with a rich white foam with a malty green hop aroma. A very pleasant ESB - or even perhaps English IPA come to think of it - with dry fruit and apple malt, some chewiness to the citrus and green hops as well as soft water from the chalky water table beneath the town - if the brewer is to be believed. A pronounced but not stark drying finish, not unlike an russet apple, from the hops.
Given my druthers, I would likely still go for a Hen's Tooth if I could find one. But not by that much.



Comments
Todd - May 17, 2006 10:33 am
I used to drink this on cask when I was living in England...good stuff. I'll have to try the canned version to see how it holds up to packaging and the trip across the pond.
Steve - May 18, 2006 4:34 am
I had this at a local british pub in southern california and found this to be one of the driest beers I have had. Did you sense a dryness?
Alan - May 18, 2006 8:26 am
Hellish dry.