Bottle shared with Nick at the Euston Tap, London on my birthday. Pours hazy red-golden-brown with a soft head. Some pine and toast in the nose. Big sweet flavor with some ripe fruits, grapefruit especially, sweet bread and pine. Medium in body with fine carbonation. Sticky sweet and resinous bitter finish, with lots of ripe citrus, caramel, toast and grass. The balance could be better, as right now it seems a bit too sweet.

Cask (handpump) @ Southampton Arms, 139 Highgate Road, London, Greater London, England NW5 1LE.Clear medium amber - red orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, dark orange. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111209]

Cask@Southampton Arms, London. Reddish amber coloour, small off-white head. Aroma is sweet malts, some floral and quite bitter grassy and wooden notes. Flavour is fruits, wood, some mild sour wood and mild herbal notes as well. Pleasantly balanced, even though not the most exciting brew out there.

Cask handpull at Five Lamps Derby. Could be beer of the day. Clear reddish brown. Lasting beige head. Good strawberry cherry malt and then slap of grapefruit bitter hop on finish. Aroma is lovely it looks lovely it tastes lovely. It is lovely. Yes beer of the day (although the Porreti was a close second).