Oakham Inferno (Cask)
Cask: Regular
This light igniting ale flickers complex fruits across your tongue leaving a dry fruity bitter finish smothering your thirst. Inferno uses a blend of five different hops from the Yakima Valley to create its floral aroma and unique flavour.
This light igniting ale flickers complex fruits across your tongue leaving a dry fruity bitter finish smothering your thirst. Inferno uses a blend of five different hops from the Yakima Valley to create its floral aroma and unique flavour.
3.4
203 reviews
Peterborough, England
Community reviews
Light, citrusy ale with a bitter aftertaste. actually quite nice
On cask at montys. Pours clear light gold. Nose of stone fruit, mango, resin. Taste is pine, moss, candied pineapple.
On cask in Edinburgh. Pale and golden, just right for the style. The flavor was pretty restrained -- there was a bit of floral hop notes, but not what I’d expect for "a blend of five different hops from the Yakima Valley" like the description says. Slight sour edge, although that was probably from the tap lines. Decent, but not terribly interesting.
Pours a light golden colour with a smooth foamy white head. Aroma is predominantly light malt, some grass and citrus hops. Robust grassy, astringent bitterness with some light malty sweetness and lingering bitter finish.
Cask @ The Fat Cat, Norwich. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are fruits, flowers, grass, malt and hops. Nice fruity finish..
Cask @ Fat Cat, Norwich. Pours golden with an offwhite head. Aroma of light malt, grass, light citrusly hops, grapefruit. Flavor is fairly bitter, malt, grassy, citrusly hops. Medium body, soft carbonation, light bitter finish. 180217
Cask @ The Masque Haunt, Old Street, London. Clear golden body with a nice white head. Mild but pleasant aroma of malt and light fruity hop. Flavor is smooth malt with mild fruit and moderate bitterness. Balanced body and OK aftertaste. A pretty smooth and soft ale that suits the cask.
Cask handpull at The Crosse Keys, London as ’Oakham Inferno’. Golden orange, totally clear and still with a diminishing foamy white head. Aroma is lemon boiled sweets, elderflower, some soap. Body is smooth with tingly carbonation. Taste is lemonade and elderflower, white rose petals, assertive dusty astringency builds. A tasty hoppy golden ale but maybe a touch too astringent, reducing drinkability.
Draft at Old Manor in Bracknell. Zesty, bitter and dry, yet still refreshing. Not the most fragrant of beers but smells quite nice. Fair body for a relatively weak beer.
Bags of taste for a golden ale sherbert lemon oranges pint at the flying horse rochdale
Malt and bitter peppery hops. Not for me, wouldn’t buy again. Didn’t buy to start with either
Cask at the brewery tap, Peterborough. A mostly clear golden yellow coloured pour with a lasting soft white head. Aroma is soft bready malts, cereal straw and faint leafy citrus hop. Flavour is composed of rounded soft pale bready malts, lemon, slightly grassy. Palate is superb, mellow, easy going and perfect cask condition. Assertive clean hop bitterness. Good stuff.
Very much like other Oakham beers I’ve tried; thin, pale, citrusy. Not my bag.
Lost rating from notes. Cambridge 2013. Clear deep yellow color with a nice white head. Malty, fruity, hoppy aroma. Moderate sweet malty taste with some fruits and light hoppy bitterness in finish. Good.
Cask in the Architect, Cambridge. Clear and very pale yellow with a white head. Lemon aroma, taste is dominated by citrus hops. Bit thin, perhaps, and definitely very pale, but rather nice
Cask at the Falcon. Pours pale gold with thin top. Floral scents of citrus. Tastes of pine woods and grasses. A resinous palate with some light hints of biscuit. On a cold winters night with a fire opposite it’s almost nostalgic of summers gone. Good but it will never persuade me to switch allegiance from the darker brews. Put less diplomatically an American ale imperfectly reconstructed
Cask @William K Frederik. Clear dark chestnut color. Thick and firm white-yellow head, stays. Sweet, malty, fruity, bit of melon in aroma. Caramel, malty, fruity, sweet in taste. Soft bitterness. Hazelnuts in aftertaste. Nice full body. Lovely brew.
Backlog rating. Cask at JDW WIQ, London. It pours a clean pale golden color with medium white head. Aroma is grassy and lemony, with citrus leaves and straw. Taste has some bread, grains, grass and lemon peel. Light bodied with soft carbonation. Overall, ok golden
Cask at Falcon Inn. Clear pale yellow color. Aroma of white pepper. Taste is light straw.
A disappointment to my taste buds. The aroma was there, but it was like it was a blend with a little of lots of different things. To be fair, this beer did improve whilst sitting, but I just felt that it was off-balance.
Tried at the Cardinals Hat, Lincoln. Pale golden colour with a thick white head. Floral and fruity aroma. Taste a touch light but refreshing.
Tasted this in the Salt Cot, Saltcoats (JDW) on the 9th August 2015. Cask, handpump dispense. Opaque pale straw in colour with a wispy white head. Dry hop flowers in the short bitter aroma. Thin resiny mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt base delivers a light fruity note of lychees and fragrant elderflower. Again floral notes present in the short hoppy aftertaste. This continues into a light hoppy finish which is slightly dry in the mouth. A poor session Golden Ale.
Cask at the Bear (JDW), Maidenhead. An odd pale straw colour with a creamy head; tropical fruit aroma; soft and creamy in the mouth with a gentle tropical fruit taste, and surprisingly full bodied; with a lasting leafy bitterness; and some ripe mango to finish.
Cask at The Water House (JDW), Durham, £1.99/pint.
Pours very pale and yellow with a thin white head and some haziness to the beer. Looks good. Odour of grapefruit and lemon. Taste is overly lemony, dominating the beer to the extent its hard to pick out any other characteristics. Could have been good but the lemon needs toning down.
Fruity aroma. Hoppy with grapefruit tones. Light yellow. Nice bite on the palate. Will drink again. Too astringent on second tasting. Third pint better
On cask at The James Watt, Greenock - hazy piss yellow body, thin white head. Nose is peach and grapefruit crush, a hoppy attack of flowery citrus. Taste is just the right side of bitter, long tasty citrus ending. Okay beeroverall.
light golden color, tropical fruit nose, fairly aggressive hops. Nice cask beer.
Cask at Annie’s Burger Shack, Nottingham. A clear deep golden colour with a thin white head. Aroma of grapefruit, peach, passion fruit, a little grain and floral hops. Taste again of citrusy dry grapefruit, peach, passion fruit , grain and floral hops. Light bodied but a watery texture. A dry, floral hop bitterness in the finish. A decent, refreshing, dry golden ale, I found it a little thin though.
Drank from a bottle. The taste is a bit thin but there still some spice there. Not very interesting.
Typical clear yellow pale ale, headless, faint hoppy citrus aroma. Taste is lightly hoppy and dry citrus but lacking much depth.