bottle at home ... golden yellow ... thin white lacing ... soft dry foral grass nose ... dry soft fruit ... ligth lemon

500ml bottle from Tesco. Pours clear pale gold with a thin white head. Sweet honey aromas, light lemon and hay. Taste is sweet, with a light bitterness that builds towards astringency at the end. More honey and slightly soapy. An OK lager.

500ml Brown bottle: Marston/Banks’s answer to the new ’craft lager’ market in the UK. Poured into a tall ’Fosters’ glass at home on 28th Nov 13. The beer looked a good medium depth golden colour and unlike most lagers, craft or otherwise this had a white head that actually hung around for a while. The body was clear and bright with carbonation bubbles rising steadily throughout the tasting. The nose was weak citrus and nothing else, usual non-smelling lager/pilsner otherwise. The taste was a mixture of citrus hints and semi-sweet maltiness with a fruity dry finish as the hops took over again after the malty centre. Good body feel and nicely put together. This is one of the better ’craft lagers’ around at the moment in the UK (that I’ve had anyway). So well done Marston/Banks’s.

500ml bottle at 5%. Pours gold with a large head. Aroma is citrus zest and orange squash. Taste is crisp with Orange squash and a floral aftertaste.

Bottle version 5% from Tesco drunk at home. Clear pale gold lasting white head. Some lemon on the aroma. Actually this is pretty good. Solid lager with good lemon and leafy hop on the finish. Ok pale malt and hop on the aroma. Good body good hoppy finish. I liked it

Keg at the Moon Under Water, JDW - London. Pours clear gold with a creamy white head. Aroma has notes of sweat, bread and cereal. Light sweet flavor with melon, plastic, grapefruit and mild bread. Light bodied with average carbonation. Slightly crispy cereal to finish with sugary bread, a but more plastic, dough, vague citrus. Not awesome.

Tap @ Crosse Keys, London. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - herbal and cheesy. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 041013

Tap @ Crosse Keys. Clear amber/orange with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, caramel and hop. Flavour is malt, caramel, fruit, medium sweet, little dry, hop and a little bitter.