Bottle. Pours a sparkling, copper body with a decent, off-white head leaving nice lacings. The aroma has a pleasant fruityness, but there’s enough caramel and bready maltyness to make it really balanced. Unfortunately it’s a bit dull too, and there’s a hint of cooked vegetables. The flavor is much the same, with the fruityness lingering and also bringing along some bitterness, but far from as much as wished for, and my demands aren’t sky-high. Medium body. The finish is rather short, with malty flavors dominating, but there’s also a little fruityness and bitterness. The beer is easy to drink and quite tasteful, but it’s still rather boring. One of those beer I don’t know if I like or not. (080317)

500 ml bottle. Amber coloured with a slight off-white head. Easy drinking with aroma of caramel and red fruit followed by more malty flavours and a decent dry finish. Not bad.

Bottlerd. Rubyish amber colour, small white head. Aroma is hops, some caramel and slightly salted notes. Flavour is slight roast, some fruits and a bit of grass. Very dry palate. Still a pleasant beer in most ways.

Can, 500 ml, best before 29 JUL 07, savoured on April 23 2007; eye: amber with a brownish hue, nice creamy beige head, good lacing, clear, slight effervescence; nose: quite malty, caramelized malt, light grainy hops, watery; mouth: in that order, nothing then caramelized malt, lactic, light acidity, harsh hops, milky malty finale with a hint of bitterness, thinner than expected, medium body, lightly sweet, mildly bitter, not much carbonated; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Canette, 500 ml, meilleure avant 29 JUL 07, savourée le 23 avril 2007; œil : ambrée avec une petite teinte brunâtre, belle mousse beige crémeuse, bonne dentelle, claire, très légère effervescence; nez : très malté, malt caramélisé, houblon légèrement granuleux, aqueux; bouche : rien, malt caramélisé, lactique, légère acidité, houblon râpeux, finale malté laiteuse avec une petite pointe d’amertume, plus mince que mes attentes, corps moyen, légèrement sucrée, moyennement amère, peu carbonatée; en résumé : correct

500ml bottle at Blå Rock Cafe. Deep dark brown body under a persistent white head. Sweet malty aroma with roasted notes. Toffee flavour supported by dark malty hints and a smoky touch. Well balanced. A bit watered finish (30.03.2007).

On bottle 0,5l. Dark golden coloured. A faintly tanned head. Hoppy aroma with hints of apricot. A bit thin in flavor, but nutty hints. A lasting aftertaste resulting in a pleasant dry finish without much bitterness. Well balanced. A decent beer for celebrating my rating no. 600 - but I remember the cask version as more rich in flavour.

Bottled(500ml). –Deep amber coloured, white head, dusty nose. Sweet malty and light hoppy aroma with spicy and oak notes. Few caramel and nuts hints. Spicy bitterness in the finish. Drinkable and very dry but also a bit too watery.

50cl bottle from Morrisons. Poured with a small white head which quickly cleared leaving a chestnut body. A rather flat, standard, bitter, with the malt too evident. (5/2/6/4/12=2.9 9/4/2006)

Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading, as Edinburgh Castle. An amber pour with a loose cream head; biscuity aroma; soft in the mouth with a caramel malt taste; then a dry finish with some berry fruit. A pleasant "heavy". (6/4/6/3/12=3,1 1/27/2017)

Bottle picked up at Waitrose, Witney, 10th July 2006. Standard brown bitter, aroma a bit fruity and malty which is also a reasonable description of it’s flavour some hops present but overall a bit safe and not too exciting.

Medium creamy offwhite head. Chestnut brown body. Resiny floral hop aroma. Taste is sweetish smoked malts, quite mild, with a strong resiny, floral hop background. Aftertaste is sweetish smoked caramel malts. Quite good. (0.5l bottle.)