Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

nice beer. aroma is very much citrus, and pine. i wouldn’t consider this an english pale ale. more and an IPA. its quite a bit more bold than an english style pale ale. the hops are more up front. overall a nice beer.

Sourish, malty, caramel, sweetish, signs of offness

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

This ale poured a deep amber colour with a big, beautiful off white head. To the nose there are scents of caramel, spice, light grass and basement. First sip had med/low carbonation with flavours of caramel, hay, resin hop flavor and a little smoke. Finish is med bitter with roasty malt flavor lingering.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Single bottle from the LCBO. Pours a clean amber colour, deeper than average with a frothy warm cap, great retention and thick-creamy lacing. Hoppy nose with the grass, over cereal grains, butterscotch and orange notes. The taste is similar with the sweetness of caramel and the decent bitterness from the hop. A grainy background. Seems like an alright British-style session brew, but their seems to be these hints of adjuncts (plastic, sourness) messing things up.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml Bottle from the LCBO. Pours a clear deep orange with a small off white head that clings to the glass. Nose is light citrus and bread. Quite sweet to start with an orange/tangerine tang and a quite modest bitterness at the back end. Flavour is quite subdued and delicate. Medium slick mouthfeel with lively carbonation.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Pretty good hoppy bitter, an appropriately smooth carbonation level. Was told this was Tommy something or other - alternate name? At Ceili Cottage on tap.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Has a quickly descending creamy head that leaves a similar lacing. Pale amber color to the body. Nice caramel aroma with floral notes and a lot of malts. Taste is pretty good fruity, slightly sweet... good amount of hops. Pleasant malts. Easy going down and definitely not too thin. Pretty good.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Hazed golden ale with a thick creamy lacing white head. Light malts and sweet aroma. In mouth, very light in body, short malt and very short British hops. Dissapears quickly with just residual bitterness. A watered down version of a good beer which i tasted a few years back, before RB.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Pale amber. Citrusy hop aroma. It's lemony flavour and lightly soapy mouthfeel makes me associate to washing-up liquid, although in a pleasant way. Medium body and bitter finish. In all a pleasant easy drinking ale.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Durham's first bottled beer - I had this on cask a few times and gave it a 2.4, but figured it was worth the shot if for no other reason that to supply my thirsty beer-loving bretheren in AZ and Stockholm. They only sell this is three Toronto stores, only one of which was near my house. So I went there and they had but 7 sixers - one of which had a broken bottle, rendering it and its neighbours the soggy bottom boys. I thought I was going to be living a life of constant sorrow, but thankfully the others were fine. I got it home, set aside the three I would actually be allowed to drink myself and got to business. The pour was disconcerting - no foam. Where's the carbonation? Does their new bottling line not work properly? Oh no, I was mistaken. One sip and I realized what they'd done. This was cask ale in a bottle. Yes it is filtered, but this had the perfect cask ale mouthfeel that they'd achieved by restraining the CO2 - a trick I've used as a homebrewer for Sleeping Village Mild (and inevitably causes consternation for judges who don't get what I'm trying to do - MILD SHOULD NOT BE FIZZY, DUMBASSES!) But I digress, gone are the minerally overtones that have impeded this brew before and the fresh, crisp hoppiness, perfect mouthfeel and beautifully balanced malts are doing their thing like Durham's never shown me before. It isn't a particularly assertive beer, but neither is it timid. It's the kind of straighforward beer that looks at you funny if you try to sniff it and analyze it. Unspectacular, but a session pint I'll be returning to again and again.