Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Hop Inn, Swindon. As Hop Inn, re-badged as their house beer. Pours clear chestnut amber pour with beige foam. Aroma: brown bread, biscuit, caramel. Taste: light sweet & light to moderate bitter, follows the aroma. Semi-dry on the palate. Medium body with soft carbonation.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Hop Inn, Swindon, 04/04/2025. As Hop Inn, re-badged house beer.
Amber pour with a lasting beige cap.
Nose is fruit slice, biscuit, brown bread.
Taste comprises fruit rinds, brown bread, dates, toffee.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Decent enough bitter.

14/11/2014. SOUTHGATE INN, Potterne Street, DEVIZES, Wiltshire, England --- Beer aliased from original tick of The Hop Inn on 21 Jan 2023 at 12:17. Original review text: 10/09/2021. HOP INN, 7 Devizes Road, SWINDON, Wiltshire, England (FREE HOUSE)

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Half-pint, cask ale, shared with Finn at Hop Inn. Filmy layer, clear dark amber body, fair lacing. Mixed nose of dark fruits and moderate malty sweetness. Moderate taste profile of caramel, earth and dried fruits. Ends mid-sweet, slightly bitter. Rather anonymous. (Swindon 26.10.2019).

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Delt med Rune. Gyldenbrun. Filmskum. Klar. Bæraroma. Smaken tørket frukt. Tørr bitter avslutning.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask-conditioned at the Seven Stars, Bristol 4/1/2017. Amber in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. Sweet cereal malts, a touch of hedgerow fruits, leading to a moderately bitter finish. Fine.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

[Cask at The Retreat, Reading] Light amber, slight white head, slight fizz - superb condition as always at the Retreat. Good fruit (rhubarb?) and malt aroma and flavour, with and odd hint of dusty Harris Tweed, as if this beer was named for some headwear of that material that fell in the mash tun. OK bitter, maybe a little on the sweet side though.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Cask handpull at The Flower Pot Maidstone. Brown virtually no head. It’s a bitter. Not great condition but the flavour is ok. Some hop on end some malt in mouth. But its a bitter.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at the Hobgoblin, Reading. Dark gold with a tight off-white head; fresh fruity aroma; light and fruity flavour with a gently bitter finish.