Bottle from Wine Warehouse, Charlottesville. Pours a clear amber color with a medium sized frothy tan head Decent head retention. Aroma of herbal, floral hops, a bit of candied citrus, caramel malts. The taste is toasted caramel malts, herbal hops. Medium bodied, very well balanced. Nice beer.

500 ml bottle into pint glass, best before 9/17/2014. Pours fairly clear golden amber color with a 2 finger fluffy white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of orange zest, grapefruit, citrus rind, lemon zest, bread, honey, caramel, floral, grass, and light piney spiciness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of hop/malt notes. Taste of grapefruit, orange zest, pine, lemon zest, citrus rind, floral, grass, bread, light caramel, light toast, and earthy pine spiciness. Fair amount of floral pine bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of citrus, pine, floral, grass, bread, light caramel, light toast, and earthy pine spiciness on the finish for a bit. Very nice balance of hop/malt flavors with good complexity; and zero cloying flavors present after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a crisp and fairly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with a minimal warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a very nice English IPA. Nice balance and complexity of hop and malt notes; and extremely crisp and smooth to drink. A very enjoyable offering.

500 ml bottle. Bright brassy gold color topped by a small bubbly beige head that leaves a clinging lace. Aroma of fragrant spicy hops and sweet malt. Tart lemony malt and bittersweet hops upfront. Velvety smooth mouthfeel. More hops come through in mid taste and finish. Nice fruity malt balance. Very drinkable at 5.3% ABV. All in all, A very nice, but tame IPA.

It pours a mild amber color giving the same color head, about an inch in height. A fair amount of carbonation is seen rising through the slightly hazy body. The smell has the hops up front with a nicely packed English malts coming through to back it up decently. The taste is sweet and bitter through the hops and malts coming through in different stages of the beer. The palate is light to medium with some harshness hitting the tongue. Overall, this is decent, but I’m not sold on this one.

Bottle. Pour is a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma is a mix of bready dry malts a whiffs of grassy hops. Flavor is more thick oily caramel malt with a nice hoppy backbone. This is all things English IPA. Strong maltyness with a nice bitter hop in the backround that dosen’t outshine the malt. A nice taste of the old world.

Cask at Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Colour is light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours are fruits, floral and sweet malts.

Cask at the Bull in Sonning, 30th November 2012, this is a good beer, stated on the pump badge as an IPA, pretty hoppy clean easy drinking English ale, I could easily session this

Poured a slightly cloudy medium amber with a white frothy head. The aroma is somewhat weak but with a hint of malt. The flavour is bitter, malt and spice. The dry pepper hits the palate right away and makes for a tasty and satisfying beer. Another winner from Fullers and a perfect session ale.

29th December 2010
Clear amber beer. Residual white suddy head. Crisp palate. Pleasant marmalade hop bitterness. Nice creamy malt base. Finishes with sweeter orange coming through in the undertone and with mild minerals. Mildly bitterness in the aftertaste. All round decent beer.

500ml bottle. Clear golden amber colour, foamy white head and fruity hop aroma. Sharp bitterness with flowery hop citrus taste and some residual lingering dry bitterness. Quite drinkable.