13/05/2015. LIGHTHOUSE, 441 Battersea Park Road, LONDON, SW11, England

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Cask @ Crown & Kettle, Manchester. Hazy pale orange with next to no head. Has a heavy floral-fruitiness in both aroma and taste with a mild sourness in the later aspect. Has a mild honey flavour to it.

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Bottle at home in London - picked up at Kris Wines. Pours hazy yellow-gold with a vivacious, frothy white head. The aroma holds a bit of lemon zest, green pepper, light straw. Light sweet flavor with prominent elderflower character, expressions of green pepper, light bitter hay, pale bread, further lemon, slight rind. Light bodied with average to lively carbonation. Finishes with a clean peppery spice, mild floral hops, nips of pale bready sweetness, light bitter lemon rind and hay. Novel stuff.

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Cask gravity at the Wandsworth summer beer fest. Very pale yellow straw film of white head. Aroma is floral, pollen, straw, wheat. Flavour is wheat grains, honey, honeysuckle, floral. Nice refreshing palate, dry straw. Decent drop.

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Bottle from LB Oddbins, shared by myself at Dadsgiving giving the NY/NJ Daddies all the new brewery ticks from London they could hope for in a Hells Kitchen apartment on a Sunday afternoon in late November! Hazed orange amber with a thin off white covering. Nose is spice, fruity jam, caramel, green pepper, straw. Taste comprises straw, mandarin, spice, green peppers, citric tang, light chilli. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, dry finale with a little spice. Ok stuff - would have this as SHV personally.

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Bottle at Dadsgiving thanks to Colin. Pours cloudy orange with white head. Nose and taste of green pepper, lemon, yeast and toasty bread. Lighter bodied.

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500ml bottle. Clear golden colour with small, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, head. Somewhat strange aroma, herbal hoppy, green pepper. Taste is dry, herbal hoppy, hints of mixed pickles, especially pickled green and red pepper, a general peppery touch, chillies, elderflower. I’m not sure if everthing’s OK with this.

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Cask gravity @ Egham BF XV. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy elderflower aroma. Fruity malty dry hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy hoppy finish.

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bottle at home ... golden amber ... thinest lacing ... soft woody apricot ... little vegative nose ... soft fruits ... sot toffeee ... sweet fruits ...