Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

House beer of Ma Cameron’s, Aberdeen’s oldest pub, now in its third century of existence; apparently brewed at Greene King’s so I took my chances. Pint from tap there (where else) during a lovely meal involving haggis, hake and tomato soup. Creamy, snow white, dense and stable head on a hazy peach blonde robe with ochre-yellow hue. Aroma of freshly mown lawn, raw white bread dough, fresh dandelion leaf, young mugwort, beech leaves, pumice, dry oatmeal, green banana. Fruity-ish onset but not sweet, hints of unripe apricot and green banana with soft carb – nitro-tapped in this case, so ‘nitration’ in a sense, if admittedly improperly used; very creamy, silky mouthfeel, enhancing a grainy, wheat-flour and white-bread-tinged pale maltiness flavoured with very grassy and green-leafy hoppiness turning slightly wormwoody in the end. The hops feel very freshly green and have enough bittering power to establish a quenching ending. Typical modern British golden ale more than a true classic pale ale, but regardless of that, it has this very ‘freshly cut weed’ greenness to it, as if walking through a summer meadow – I could drink gallons of it.