Cask at praf 2016. Pours clear amber, nose is malty toffee, rhubarb, taste is sweet, light fruit.

Cask at the Paisley Beer Festival 2016. Pours clear golden with a thin, bubbly white head. Aromas of light malt, faint fruit. Taste is light sweet, faint bitter tingle at the end. OK.

Cask gravity at the Watford beer fest 2013. Golden colour with a light haze, loose white head. Aroma is sweet sugar, faint apple. Flavour is nutty caramel malt , berry. Fair.

Brown 500ml bottle, best before the end of Dec 2010, drank and reviewed 25 Oct 2010. I somehow missed bringing this across with me from BA. Poured into an ’Abbots Ale’ tankard, my current favourite UK pint tasting glass. Light amber almost orange in colour with a white head that soon became a collar and lacing as the beer sank down the glass. Mild malty aroma, fairly weak, even as the beer warmed. A malt sweetness is evident initially in the taste, a hop bitterness however soon arrives to let you know this is a well balanced true English Bitter (not a Pale Ale as listed). The alcohol content is fairly high for a UK bitter, hence the ’special’ in the name. The 5.1% ABV is well hidden and the beer is easy and pleasant to drink.

An ok grape like bitterness with a watery aftertaste. Color is golden amber with a white head.

Bottle from Utobeer, London. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, fruity and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 261013

50cl bottle from ABCBeers, the Hague. Thick creamy white head. Clear golden pour. Pretty drinkable bitter

Hazy golden colour, hopped but with a sweetness which dominates taste and texture.