Cask at Bird In Hand, Stafford. Pours a slightly hazy “bitter brown” with a medium sized foamy almost white head and good lacing. There’s malts and mixed hops in the aroma alongside yeast and summer fruits. In the mouth there is a flirting taste of sweetness before it is swept away by traditional hoppy bitterness. Flavour is quite fruity with apples and lemon marmalade, plus hints of nuts and oranges later. Sweetness returns to a certain extent in the dry finish. This is quite decent – best beer of the day.