On cask @ The Snowdrop, Lewes. Nice smooth floral beginning. Hints of grain, nice floralness with a smooth aftertaste. Nice.

Small white head. Slightly hazy yellow body. Floral minty toffee aroma with sugary pine needle notes. Dry-sweet spicy peas and flowers taste with toffee notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft, flat mouthfeel. Dryish orangey peas aftertaste with mealy floral notes. Odd, and in parts it’s great. Grew on me as I drank. Surprisingly Lithuanian. (0.568l cask, at Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen.)

500ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear gold with a thick white head. High carbonation. Aromas of butterscotch and lemon. Taste is lemon, astringent malt. Thin finish. Disappointing. Probably better on cask, to be fair.

Bottle from Ales By Mail; golden amber pour with a creamy white head, light lemon aroma, taste has citrus, a bit of diacetyl, some bready malts, I was expecting more from this because of Glens review, perhaps I need to try it in cask.

Typical English golden ale with stable, moussy, irregular, snow white head over a very slightly hazy (but cloudy with deposit), ochre blonde beer with very subtle olive green hue. Unusual and, frankly, not too inviting aroma of biscuit and toasted bread, green olives, cervil soup, melting rubber, grass, buttermilk, crushed weeds, caramelized ’witloof’, candied apricot, bread dough, raw Brussels sprouts, earth, old cake. Taste begins rather neutral (as usual in this style), some subdued fruitiness (cucumber, unripe berries), medium carbonation, grainy sourishness with even a slightly drying effect, somewhat yeasty and starchy but not overly so, rather thin body as expected, mineral water, toasted maltiness appearing quickly but not as much as in many darker coloured beers, bready, all restraining from actual sweetness and managing to do that very well; in the finish, a relieving, leafy and earthy, ’low’ hop bitterness appears, lasting quite long, with a bready, in fact almost sourdough-like graininess piercing through it all; this mild but persistent hop bitterness (fortunately) stays with you as the last impression, but remains too subtle to save the day. I may have stumbled upon an old bottle - clearly this style is intended to be consumed fresh - but I must say, I expected more from this, this is actually quite unbalanced, boring and strange in a not very appealing kind of way... Even in this style, I find this one of the lesser exampes I tasted so far.

Cask at the Grey Horse. Pours golden, nose is full of toffee, taste is sweet, chewy, light fruit.

Cask at the Elm Tree, Cambridge. Clear gold, with a gentle loose white head. Honey, toast and gooseberry/kiwi aroma. Sweet, juicy, clean taste. A bit of sour-bitterness in the finish and aftertaste. It’s a well-made golden beer but not the best I’ve had in this style.

Cask - Biscuit malts and a light fruitiness. Pale gold with a nice white head. Light malts with an earthy hoppiness. I don’t get the tropical fruits at all.