[cask at brewpub] Quite a bit of US hops in the nose with a touch of toffee coming through later. Hazy copper with bubbly foam that almost totally receded. Milder hops flavour than expected from aroma with a little caramel coming in behind and a mildly bitter ending. Fairly clean with perahps a little citrusy finish from the yeast. Light-medium body with a touch of lingering bitterness.

Draught pint at the brewpub. A spot of head clings to the unfiltered-looking, hazy dark amber body but doesn’t lace at all....faint citric hops and a spot of caramel show up in the weak aroma, at first fairly pleasant but eventually some odd fuesels/plastic notes show up and you know that all is not well.....as indeed the palate proves, again at first not so bad, dry and woody-twiggy (hops? or splinters?) and a bit buttery, not great but....eventually with just a few minutes warmth truly unpleasant salty heavy mineral qualities show up and a soapy slickness....the moderate, reasonably appropriate carbonation doesn’t help or hurt: this is just way, way off, undrinkable after a quarter of the pint. Hideous stuff; this trip to 7 Barrel was actually worse than my first two and I doubt I will ever return.