Madgwick Gold
Hammerpot Brewery

Purchased at a little local delicatessen in The Lanes, Brighton, which features quite a few interesting food-products and drinks (incl. Beers and Ciders) from all over Sussex Counties. Bottle-conditioned, coming in a 500ml brown bottle, "Celebrating the Madgwick Cup and the famous Goodwood corner". BB AUG 07, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.

A: murky dark golden in colour, topped with a thin white spongey foam with good retention, fed by constant flows
S: lightly lemony-citric and a tad spicy, smelling a bit like Styrian Goldings or something of the sort; also at presence is a soothing flow of hop-earthiness and exotic fruit-esters, while the candyish maltiness stays firmly in the background. The whole aroma and the accompanying yeasty hints smack of an attempt at the Belgian-style pale ale, although the beer label doesn't seem to pretend so.
T: semi-piney, sweet-citric, with plenty of mild cane-sugary maltness to boot - faintly reminiscent of a Belgian Pale Ale for the yeasty touch; the aftertaste is packed with steamed Chinese green beans and light caramelised malts, while the powdery hop-bitterness and yeastiness render a somewhat chewy, and "dryish-sweet", finish.
M&D: this bottled ale is undoubtedly influenced, or even steered, by the bottling yeasts, hence the strong yeasty flavour all the way through. Overall it treads on the border between a Golden Bitter and a Pale Ale, while, for a microbrewery, I think the bottle-conditioning effort is not bad at all. Awaiting to try the cask version to see the difference~~