Cask @ Bath House, Cambridge. Clear dark gold/orange with a small white head. Aroma of malts, toffee, marzipan, citrus fruits and alcohol. Taste of malts, citrus fruits, toffee and marzipan. Low bitterness. Low carbonation. Alright.

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.

Half pint from the cask at the Red Lion, Redhill. Pours golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, light fruits & malt. Moderate body. Light bitter finish.

Does the job, malty soft.