Draught @ The Stoneworks, 🇬🇧 8a Church Street, PE1 1XB Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England.

[ As Melvin * (Asterisk) ].
ABV: 9.0%. Light cloudy medium yellow orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, pale malt, light caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, fruity hops, dried fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, dried fruit, apricot, pale malt, sweet malt, fruity hops, medium dry, dried fruit - honey. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20180721]
7-3-8-4-15

Pours deep hazy gold into a tulip. White head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Dark caramel and resin aromas. Soft with sweet hot caramel and bitter mango pith with a warm pine finish.

Tap into a snifter showing moderately filtered medium amber with a finger of clean white foam. The nose shows pronounced notes of grapefruit rind, lemon, and dry pine. The palate is well carbonated and medium bodied. Moderately intense flavors of pineapple, pine resin, and a moderately intense bitterness that stretches through the end.

Draught at Lord Hobo, 11/30/17.
Lightly hazy, golden-brass body topped by a medium-sized, well-retained, white head.
Light pine quickly gives way to the very fruity character that seems to be prevalent in Melvin's beers. Must be partly from the yeast, and there is a bit of tackiness (alcohol, sharp ester, light glue), though this is hardly uncommon in today's yeasty-IPA-society. Still, the hops are endearing and done with minimal resin, while malts, perhaps a bit more robust than needed? find plenty of balance. Leafy green dank character and tons of juicy fruit with little/no resin.
Soft, malty, sweet, though drying out somewhat by means of both alcohol and hop bitterness. Still, their beers tend slightly sweet, even though I think it generally adds more balance than it does any issue with being too sweet. Nectarine, yellow apples, a bit of glue and wax and alcohol heat with light pine/grapefruit and low resin lingering. Engaging, ample carbonation and caramel-tinged honey malts.

Draught at Harry’s Hofbrau in Redwood City. Pours golden- copper with white head. Solid all around. Did not get the bitterness I expected here. Nice.

Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and earthy aroma. Grapefruit and earth flavor with light summer fruit. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and summer fruit lingers with earth and light malt.

Tap at Rattle n Hum, New York, 20th November 17. Pours a clear amber beer, aroma is clean, pine, citrus, floral. Taste is unusual booze, pine, resin, slick and full mouth feel. Good stuff