Cask at Market Porter. Brown with golden creamy head. Aroma is malty, touch of light choc, some sweetness. Taste is nutty, touch of cream, brown bread, malty. Not bad. Quite smooth. --- Beer merged from original tick of Sovereign on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:06 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Cask at Market Porter. Brown with golden creamy head. Aroma is malty, touch of light choc, some sweetness. Taste is nutty, touch of cream, brown bread, malty. Not bad. Quite smooth.

Cask at CBC, London on 18th November 2013. Crystal clear, deep copper with shallow head but plenty of lacing. Earthy, pungent aroma. Leafy, herby and solidly malty in-mouth. Grassy finish rounded with caramel malt.

cask at cloisters ...copper thin off white lacing... soft chocolate ... light toffee malt nose ... light dry toffee hop ... quite nice if a little dry for me.

Cask handpull at The Thirsty Pig, Maidstone. Looking at Duff’s rating of this beer from all those years ago, he is completely correct. He really does have one of the best noses and palates of any rater I have met. And I rather miss reading his ratings. Anyway this is an attractive dark brown colour with slightly toasted malts that give a fullness and dryness to the beer. The hops are excellent and vear on the grapefruit side. Enormously drinkable beer.

[i]Cask/Gravity at The Swan Beer Festival, Islip 05-10-07[/i] Poured a very dark amber some fruit, roasted notes and possible yeast on the nose. Initial taste reminds one more of a mild than a bitter but this slowly changes and a rather punchy bitter but still quite mild comes through. Nice lingering bitter finish, and a most enjoyable beer.