Bottled. Hazy ambery brown colour, some toffee, raisins and mild toasted and nutty notes. Flavour is nutty, some mild alcohol along with caramel, toffee and some slight burnt sugary notes. Rather sweet, but still a good slow sipper.

Pours dark amber with an off-white small head.Nose shows lots of peach and passionfruit hops along with more tropical fruit. Underneath is rich caramel malt.Similar flavours but more malty, with a little alcohol showing and a soft bitterness.Carbonation is a little high.

Bottle, label says 7.2% ABV. Cloudy copper with a large light beige head. Lots of tiny bubbles. Powerful aroma of grapefruit, flowers, ripe nectarines, pine, toffee, earth. Somewhat syrupy mouthfeel. Lots of rich toffee overshadows the pears, dried fruit and nectarines and is followed by piney bitterness. It’s quite bitter, but not so much so as to quite dry out the finish. There’s a bit of alcohol burn there too. Second sedimenty pour softened the plain richness of the toffee a bit. Given what I like about normal Hightail is the lightness and liveliness of the texture I was a bit surprised how much I liked this.