Cask at the Duchess of Cambridge, London, during the American Beer Festival. Pours clear gold with a fine, white foam head. Dry, pale malts and toasty straw in the nose. Light to medium sweet flavor with toasty pale malts, white bread, some lemon and other pithy citrus, pineapple. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Great condition. Mild dryness to finish with plenty of rindy citrus, dry grass and straw. Pretty decent.

Excellent American Pale Ale with a nice bitterness to it. Great crisp texture.

On tap Ship & Mitre Liverpool. Pale amber with a thin head. Aroma is grapefruit hop. Flavour is bitter hop tempered with some light sweetness. Palate is lingering bitter

Cask (gravity) @ The Bree Louise, 69 Coburg Street, Euston, London, England NW1 2HH.Clear medium amber yellow - orange colour with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, pale malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, grass. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, peel bitter, citrus, fresh, dry grass. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20111210]

Cask, Ship & Mitre, Liverpool. Amber looks with a thin off white head. Slightly muted sweet malts and hop in the nose. Decent enough hop bitterness in the flavour that lingered well into the finish. Straightforward and perfectly drinkable stuff, if a little unrefined.