4.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle at Shrewsbury tasting Oct 5 courtesy of minutemat, thanks! Murky to cloudy amber color, thin tan head. Aroma of port wine and boiled vegetables. Taste is burnt port wine. Hmmm...

4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

500ml bottle @ Shrewsbury Bottle Share, Travlr edition, Oct 15, courtesy of myself, bought in Stori Beer & Wine, Bala. Pours murky brown with bubbly head. Some unfortunate off-flavours, mouldy pine and lemon perhaps with an unwelcome earthy bitter edge. Not sure this was the intended result.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

500ml bottle shared at a Shrewsbury bottle exchange group meeting with Gene as a guest on 5th Oct 2015. Poured a murky brown with a beige head. The Vinegar Fly might have got into the bottle because this had a strange aroma and taste, herbal, earthy and liquorice with malty overtones, sweet and sour at the same time and just plain weird all round. No idea how to score this: no one (six of us) actually liked it, but it was different and almost interesting, so I am being kind with my scores.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at the Craven Arms; clear coca cola brown pour with a frothy light tan head, sweet malt and toffee aroma, taste had liquorice and dark fruits, some roast malt, ok.

8

Very good.