Pours clear gold with a white head. Earthy, malty aroma. No hops. Lightly sweet watermelon flavor. Thin bodied. No hop action going on here makes this one a disappointment.

Courtesy of jcwattsrugger. Pours hazy deep gold with copper core and micro thin white head. The aroma is full of grapefruit and malty sweetness. Nice. The taste is also very nice for the style with grapefruit hop bitterness and hop flavor to go along with a backbone of malty sweetness. This brew maintains a decent level of hop bitterness to midway and to the finish. It ends with minimal flavor yet pretty darn refreshing.

12oz bottle-pours a rich off white head and hazy amber color. Aroma is nice citrus/pine, some medium malt. Taste is dry bitter grapefruit, herbal-tea, secondary medium malt. High carbonation.

Doesn’t look too shabby. Cloudy orange color with a pretty light, but nice looking head, which lasts for enough time I suppose. Smells like piny hops says I. Not very complex. Mostly hops straight to the face. Some citrus in there as well. Not too bad, but nothing really special.

Pours bright orange/red into a shaker. Fluffy tan micro head goes conglomerate as it leaves cobwebs of lacing. Bright pine aromas. Smooth and well balanced with grapefruit and resin hop flavors. Bitter lasting hop finish.

2004 bottle. Pours a soft orange with amber/red tinges and a big eggshell head. Plenty of sediment in this bottle conditioned sample. Aroma is faint, light plastic, soily, dirty hops. Flavor is very dry and bitter, no real attempt at sweet malt balance here. Tastes much like pine nettles. In fact, it tastes almost like eating a whole hop, bitter, light metal notes. I want to dislike this, but somehow this strange beer is not terrible. It want to have English flavors, but huge american bitterness. At least it was a unique take.

Orange to light amber; dirty-amberish head. Nose with chalk, fresh lemony and leafy hops. Smells more like a British cask ale than as an USA IPA - including the little ’dishwater’ aroma. Taste is harsh, chalky and metallic hopbitterness, with very little aroma. Again dishwashing, again English, but not as the better cask ales. In the aftertaste, the metallic harshness gets worse. Warming up, some malt sweetness appears, but it gets choked by the metallic bitterness. Not very full-bodied, but that’s British again. If the main purpose was to recreate an English style, this might be called succesfull. They might, however, tried better examples, as TT Landlord, King Alfred’s, of Oakhams. Instead...