Stairway to Heaven
Burton Bridge Brewery

Bottle conditioned in 500ml of dark brown glass and a carry out from yesterdays supping
Pours a slightly hazed pineapple flesh coloured body with nice white head
Aroma is peaches and apricot
Flavour is hints of rhubarb, slightly sweet malt and a low level bitter finish

Cask at Burton Bridge Inn. Dark gold with nice white foamy head. Aroma is grain, apple, and flowers. Taste is light sweetness with leafy grassy hop bitterness and mineral. Lean and dryish, Definitely leans to hoppy, bitter side, but not overly strongly. Good but less so than others from this brewery.

Cask. Clear gold with a thin dense head.
A rather weak aroma of leaf and floral hops.
The leafy hops appear immediately upon tasting. Otherwise quite earthy.
Cask feel.
Hmm?

L- The cap popped off way 'too easily', without bending it at all, and I immediately wondered if the bottle had been properly sealed. The beer poured with zero bubbles until I raised the pour-height which produced a small amount of white patchy head. The beer is slightly hazy and there is almost no rising carbonation. [At this point I still don't know if it's drinkable].
S- It's mild, I just get some grain.
T- Grainy, quite deeply roasty and into quite a pronounced trad-style dry hoppy finish.
F- Intentionally or not this is a very very low carbonation beer. The hoppy-dry finish is really pretty intense so that is keeping my palate interested and distracted, ie I can't conclude what the CO2 in the mouth is like, beyond subtle.
O- I suspect the cap wasn't sufficiently crimped into place, but fortunately did not dislodge in-transit to my home. In this situation it is really difficult to know how to rate a beer as you don't know if maybe it's meant to be like that... The CO2 is strikingly low, though to be clear it isn't fully flat tasting, and I suspect that it not as intended. Despite that it is proving drinkable though higher CO2 would clearly have added to it. This English IPA is in the trad-style of IPAs that I used to encounter in my pubbing youth ['80s], ie no modern tropical fruit notes to be found anywhere - thankfully.
p.s. The 500ml bottle carries an unsually attractive lable, a stylised stained-glass window featuring a pint glass of beer with angelic wings and a halo.
Bought from BeersOfEurope/UK for home delivery £2.79 BBE: March-2021

Used to be a regular guest in one of my locals but rarely seen now: this is a review of a hand pulled pint in The Plough, Shifnal (22nd Feb 2012).

Fairly dull colouring of gold/blonde beer with a full but thinning head of off-white foam; could look a lot better and sometimes does, or at least it used too.

Nose had a mild hop feel, floral with a mini citrus finish.

The taste is hop first and last, with a malt content that prevents the beer being too bitter our sour and allowing some sweetness to equal out the floral hops that dominate the initial flavours.

Pleasant and worth trying. I had mates who wouldn't leave the pub until the barrel was empty a few years ago (it didn't have the same effect on me).

The colour is deep yellow – gold; the head is ½ fingers thick, white and airy.

The mild smell is a little perfumed with sour earthy flavours of iodine.

The taste is earthy with sourish notes of iodine (did I really get a bitter, not a lambic?), a naughty sharp bitterness and some malty touches. The aftertaste is bitter with lots of minerals and some sourness.

The carbonation is mild. Minimal sized bubbles.

I suspected that this beer was infected or damaged in some way, but the very knowledgeable staff at Pub Oliver Twist (in Stockholm) insisted that the beer had those flavours when the case was opened.

Tasted by half-pint at my local JDW pub, the Half Moon, East End London.

A: pours a slightly hazy, pale amber hue, coming with a tightly frothy beer head sustaining very well.
S: thick and richly hoppy--grassy, light citrus-peel, apple-ish+cherry-ish perfumy fruitiness... big hops rest on top of a solid biscuity malty base. Solid, rich, very enticing~~
T: flowery, a little less citric but slightly sharp hoppyness comes hand in hand with a moderate biscuity malt undertone; a fich flow of spicy Goldings hops expands at the back of the palate, bringing a slightly warmish hoppy impact on top of a bitter-sweet edge from rich maltiness... The finish is just slightly bitter but lingers well, showing more hops than bitterness overall.
M&D: balanced body, with good portion of hops which helps to strike a deeper depth through the lighter malty interface. Luckily, it's tasted on form. A lively pale ale with an impressive hoppy depth which makes it even in line with English IPA. Solid and delicious!

(Cask)Caramelly/toffee malts, citric hoppy acidity/bitterness, lightly honeyed character, lightly sticky and lightly bitter. Pretty nice all round, but not too over the top in most departments, solid cask bitter, nothing stands out for me however. Simple but nice.