Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pretty dry. Toast, caramel, floral notes, esters, chocolate. Pleasant.

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

Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Malty aroma with caramel, some breadcrust and a hint of (dried) fruit. Moderate bitter with a light sweetness. Medium body. Nice Irish Red

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

Pint from the cask at Crosse Keys, Gracechurch Street. Pours a deep red/brown with a white head. Aromas & tastes of red berries, toffee, caramel, earth & malt. Medium body. Sweet finish. Enjoyable

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at Briar Rose, Birmingham. Reddish brown with good lasting beige head. Its a sweet earthy and caramel noted beer with some dried fruit and a yeasty tang. Somewhat dusty and leafy by the finish. A bit muddled in my view.

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

Can 44cl. from Het Biermeisje @home poured into a pint glass. Somewhat murky deep amber colour, when poured out some floaties, fair creamy off-white head, mostly diminishing, light lacing. Aroma sweet malt, roast, liquorice, caramel, biscuit. Taste light to medium sweet and light bitter, malty, caramel, light roast, some red fruit. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation, mild malty sweetbitter aftertaste, light roasty notes, not well-balanced, okay.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

1/2 pint, cask at Hamilton Hall. Shared with Finn. Wetherspoon Beer Festival, March 24. Off-white head over a deep ruby reddish body, spotty lacing. Moderate smell of dark caramel. Biscuit, caramel, and toasted malts to the taste profile. Slightly roasted endnotes. Decent. (Rating no. 24300) (London, 16.03.2024).

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Falcon (JDW), High Wycombe. Orange-chestnut colour with a beige head. Sweet, with caramel to the fore and a hint of red fruit. A simple brew, but it seemed to be just the thing on a warm spring day after a long, hilly walk. Went down very nicely.

Malty muck

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

Pours an almost clear coppery amber colour with a small diminishing beige head. Aroma is sweet malts, light caramel and red berry fruit. A light sweet taste, sweet malts, caramel, red berry fruit flavours with a light drying and moderate to light bitterness.

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

[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading.] A copper coloured pour with a loose cream head; sweet malty aroma; sweet nutty caramel taste; and a light earthy bitterness to finish.