Fat Catz
Highgate Brewery Ltd

Tasted this beer by a pint at the Birkbeck Tavern, Leyton last week. The pub seems to be a good customer of the Highgate (Aston Manor) brewery and regularly has one of their real ales as guest beer.

A: light copperish hue with good clarity but almost no beer head is detected.
S: earthy hop scent (Fuggles?) with a bit of sulphury smell, decorated with a bit of orange candy, but overall the aroma is one-dimensional and slightly static on the nose.
T: good body of pale malts, with a little sweet floral flavour backed by an intense flow of semi-spicy hoppyness, turning faintly savoury and dryish afterwards, leaving herbal bitterness in the end.
M: very light on the mouthfeel, even slightly watery... it's definitely in need of a structure for a flavour profile and alc. strength which it has.
D: nothing wrong with this autumn ale, but too boring for a second pint. Could improve a lot when on form, I believe, as the body and flavour would be much fuller.