Bottled. Clear dark amber, rich head. Odd fruity aroma. Sweet with light notes of grass and minerals. Plum and other fruit are the most evident features. Light bodied with clean mouthfeel, lightly phenolic. Finishes with low bitterness.

Cask@St Albans Beer Festival. Aroma is a little acidic/tart. Tasted very cosmetic or maybe ven of paint stripper or something (not that i’ve tastes paint thinner). Very acidic, was this infected, sure tasted like it.

Cask (gravity dispense), St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Hazy orange/copper colour. Sweetish candy sugar, bit of hop, quite dry in mouth with a bit of vegetable. Tangerine/citrus finish and almost a bit of plasticine.

The commercial description says it all really. Quite dark amber colour. Not crystal clear. A bit thin, but a reasonable session bitter. Not a lot of hop presence. Cask (handpump), Head of Steam, Euston, London NW1. (6/2/6/3/12) RE-RATE: Cask (hanppump), Tafarn-y-Porth, Caernarfon, October 2005. Quite different. Pale amber colour. Very hoppy, but quite thin. A decent quaffing pint but a bit low on flavour. (5/3/6/3/12)

Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest ’08. Amber / brown with white head. Dry, slightly metallic flavours, almost medicinal. Couldn’t really session on this as it was at the end of the festival.