UPDATED: SEP 12, 2023 Bottle. Pours copper amber almost chestnut body off white foam head. Aroma of roasted malts and berry fruits. Taste is medium sweet to bitter with some more hedgerow berries at the front and a definite bitter finish. Medium bodied, slightly sticky texture, average carbonation and a drying bitter finish. Overall, it's not a strong ale I will seek out, although looking at other reviews it seems to be better if you get it fresh rather than bottled.

UPDATED: OCT 18, 2022 500ml bottle from Purely Cornish, Looe. Pours deep brown with an off white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of dark fruits, nuts, toffee, brown bread & smoked malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish. Enjoyable

UPDATED: JUN 12, 2022 Panda at home, thanks to Danlo, 12/06/22. Deep amber to chestnut brown with a light beige covering that dissipates to a swirl and edgeing. Nose is dried fruits, toffee, dates, sugars, brown bread, hint of berry fruits. Taste comprises fruit cake, brown sugar scattering, brown bread, light spice, hedgerow, toffee, dates. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close with a modest bitter edge. Respectable enough strong ... not sure why only scoring 2.87?

UPDATED: JUN 7, 2022 Bottle at the Glamping site in Devon. Picked up from the cider Barn near lizzard point. Amostly clear chestnut brown coloured pour with a lively frothy beige head. Aroma is toasted nuts, toffee apple, rustic brown sugars, tangy fruit cake, . Flavour is composed of semi sweet, cakey malts, dried fruit cake, singed cake, raisin, apple, mellow roast in the finish. Palate is semi sweet, light savoury, frothy carbonation. Not bad.

UPDATED: JUL 22, 2020 Bottle from Purely Cornish. Appearance - deep copper to red. Slightly off white head. Nose - light prune and glace cherry in amongst a general caramel and cake situation. Taste - Highland toffee, prunes more so this time. Honey and raisins. Palate - medium bodied at least. Sweet nmiddle with just enough malt bitterness on the finish to just about make it drinkable. Overall - decent.

UPDATED: DEC 31, 2019 Bottle. Bought whilst on holiday in Cornwall. Poured golden amber with an off-white head. Aroma of caramel, malt, fruit. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness. Moderate body, slight oily texture, soft carbonation. A little soapy to finish. Fair.

UPDATED: SEP 4, 2019 Bottled, 500ml from Good Life, Polperro, Cornwall. Copper to chestnut with cream head. There is an over ripe plummy character to this, a touch boozy, a touch fusty. Sweet, slightly nutty, slightly souring. Heavy on the palate. Just okay really.

UPDATED: FEB 27, 2019 Always found good and pleasurable but being a ex Lizard dweller i may be biased. Picked up a couple of bottles from St Keverne shop whilst visiting family. Great colour but weak head. I like the caramel malty nature and fruity tones ans goes down well. Doesn't 'feel' like a 5% ale but to me its ok alround.

Very muddy, very ripe, very old school. Falls into the ‘home brew’ category of beers (lol) but then, teasingly, from within the malted bog, out comes a strange sweetness, almost a mix of toffee and brown sugar. Enough to keep my drinking, but not enough to convince me repeat, I don’t think. An odd one. 500ml bottle from some off license in Lizard, Cornwall.

UPDATED: JUL 24, 2017 Butelka 500ml z Penzance,Cornwall. Jasno-brazowy lub mahoniowy kolor. Piana biala,malaszybko opada. W zapachu i smaku palony karmel,slody,ciastka,ciemne owoce,rodzynki. Wodniste i bez blysku.