Burton ale… a bit of an obsession at Butcher’s Tears. An extinct beer style somewhere between India pale ale and Barley wine, made with extensive use of dark brewing sugars for complex fruit and liqourice flavours, topped with generous amounts of hops. This is an original recipe from Truman’s of Burton-on-Trent (the place of origin) from exactly a hundred years ago, appropriately brewed on Armistice day of 2018. Earthy hop notes of orange and rose petals along with a touch of sulphur give way to fruit flavours of pear, pineapple and fig with hints of toffee, hazelnut and treacle before ending in a firm bitterness. Full bodied yet not sweet. A beer with extra everything without becoming too heavy.