Cask conditioned handpull at Market Porter. Gold with thin white head. I’ve had this in the Way Lade Inn, just outside of Callander and remembering I liked it. This is a caramel/toffee light bitter, with very light hop presence. It’s a dullish, caramel bitter with very light hop finishing bite. Not really to my taste.

August 2005, "The Lade Inn", Kilmahog, Callander, Scotland. Cask. The brewery is in the same building, but they start brewing themselves in a month, so this beer is brewed at Bridge of Allan. Amber with a nice, creamy and lasting head. The aroma has notes of fruit and caramel and the flavour is very nice, but light with notes of fruit, citrus and a good and lasting bitterness. It’s incredible that a beer with 3,9% can have this much flavour.

<i>Lade Inn, Trossachs.</i> Softly fragrant malt with rough rotted banana flavours. Tannic rather than hoppy finish. Curious. Could be an acquired taste, but this initial sampling was just a little too alien for comfort.