Hand pumped at Malto, Riccione, Italy. Pours a beautiful red-brown, darkish, with fine cream foam. Aroma is intensely earthy, a little caramel. Body is partially dense, with very weak carbonation. Taste has a nice toasty/earthy bitterness, plus a little underlying sweetness. Final is average.

Can at home picked up from Craft metropolis. A mostly clear deep ruby amber coloured pour with a lasting khaki head. Aroma is sweet sticky honey roasted nuts, liquorice, toasted nuts, sryup, Flavour is composed of raw grains, nut skins, liquorice, bark, leafy, big bitter bastard, rye bread, green liquorice. Palate is semi sweet, drying peanut skins, resinous hop, super bitter, highish carbonation.

Slight hazy dark brown with nice tan head. Caramel, biscuits, deep roasted notes, walnuts, marmalade, bitter grassy hops. Under medium sweet, more bitter. Solid medium bodied. Nice.

Cask at the Guildford Arms. Pours clear amber with a thick off-white head. Aromas of twiggy bitter, nuts and herbs. Taste is toffee, nuts and earth. Faint fruity butter finish.

Cask at Craft Beer Co Clerkenwell. It pours lightly hazy chestnut brown with a thick fluffy khaki head. The aroma is earthy, wood, brown bread, malt loaf, toasted fruit loaf, toasted nut and resin. The taste is firmly dry, bitter, resinous, sappy, grassy, leafy, earthy, brown bread, ryvita, toasted nut, wood and toasty spice with a drying, woody finale. Medium body and decent cask carbonation. Flavourful and robust. A satisfying sup.