Bottle, pours murky dark amber with a small head. Aroma of nuts, English malts, caramel and moderate hops. Flavour of toasted English malts, nuts, caramel and slight hops.

Bomber from Spinnakers Wine Merchants; Nose of citrus and lemony hopswith some overripe background fruitiness; clear brown with a medium, glass-lacing beige head; Flavor is hop bitterness with some caramel and a background plum note. Finish is hop bitterness.

Bottle, thanks a lot Todd! Amber, fine pearling bubbles, creamy off-white head. Good pine resiny aroma. Medium to light body, soft mouthfeel. Light malt base, leafy,resiny, somewhat metallic finish. Pine retronasal, quick exit.

Copper color, fluffy beige head. Slightly spicy citrus hop nose. Flavor has none of the citrus, but bittering hops, long finish. Needs more malt sweetness for balance a bitter should display

Dull amber colour of a Red Truck Ale with a thick head that lasts long, like a Dix IPA. The nose is earthy and foresty hops like you find in the Two Lions Pale from Taylor’s Crossing, but with the breadcrusty malts reminiscent of Dix Vienna Lager. The body is a bit thin and barely carries across an earthy hop bitterness not dissimilar to that of High Mountain’s Big Wolf ESB. Again, malts are breadcrusty, with a caramel accent. The finish is dry and hoppy like a dry-hopped cask of Yippie IPA. It lacks sugar, definitely, but there’s a time & place to be sweet, and a time & place to be bitter. Unlike some of Matt’s previous efforts, this is no fiasco.