50 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a huge tan head. Aroma is toasted maæty and light breadish. Bitter, toffee and crisp hoppy. Toffee malty and light caramelish. Medium dry and bitter.

En bra engelsk bitter. Torr och lagom sötma. Smak och doft av malt, knäck, karamell, apelsin. En trevlig beska som är lite pepprig och kryddig i karaktären.

Bottle from SB cons 2012-09-11 Göteborg AR: cherries, caramel, fruit syrup, cookies AP: clear ruby, 2 cm thick stothy/wee rocky yellowish white that is lasting F: cherry cookies, cream brulee, wee roasted malt, full heavy body, medium bitterness, soft wee carbonation, wee sugary feeling, finishes wee cherry and citrus

Bottle from Systembolaget. Pours mahogny with a big creame white head. Malty, sweet and slightly spicy aroma. Taste of light rosted malt, lemon cest and some citrus juice. Too sharp carbonation, otherwise a rather nice brew.

Rödbrun färg, lågt skum. Knäckig doft, fruktkaka, russin, rostad mandel. En doftbild som jag förknippar med engelsk öl som är ett par procent starkare minus alkoholtonerna. Riktigt fin. Smaken avslöjar att det är 4,7%. Lätt ganska torr kropp, murriga smaker av höstskog, lite mineraler, torkade apelsinskal knäck och en för England ganska markerad beska. God men doften lovade ännu mer. Ändå en strålande special bitter. Helt min kopp te.

Dark copper colour, clear, with a rich foamy head. Fruity, malty aroma, some burnt sugar. Roasted and malty taste, rough bitterness at the end.

Small but reasonably persistent cream-coloured head, leaving even some lace, over deep foxy-amber beer. All kinds of cookies aroma’s, with caramel and even toffee, giving mental images of Petit Beurre, Café Noir, biscuit and even oatmeal cookies. And a tad spicy. Taste is way drier than the nose suggests, hoppy, with even a serious hint at bitterness, tangy, which goes on for a long time. Mocha retronasal, becoming sweeter again after some warming up. Light to medium bodied, quite slick, and quite dry finish. I’m a bit... spooked indeed as how nose and flavour give each other the lie... Far from bad - would love to sample this from the cask.

500ml Brown bottle, best before Aug 2012, poured into an Abbot Ale glass tankard in Oct 2011. Looks really good, lovely red hue to its chestnut brown body a full, deep slighlty off-white head sat on top. Hops in the aroma, was expecting a maltier smell because of the colour: the rear label does mention ’a particularly fruity hop’ being added at four different stages of the brewing process. That’ll be the reason I could smell a citrusy hop presence then! The taste however is maltier than the hops, with a roasted biscuity, toasted brown bread feel to it. There is a sharper, bitter finish after the initial malt taste, those hop obviously finding their feet towards the end of the gulps I was taking. I was hoping for a more creamy, richer body to be honest, but it wasn’t a bad beer in any way, just not as smooth as I’d hoped for.

Bottle 500ml.Clear medium to dark amber colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to light light heavy malty, caramel, caramelized caramel - malt, light toffee. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, light toffee. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111211]

[500ml bottle that Dad shared with me - cheers!] Moderate off-white head, too much fizz for style. Treacle and woodland mulch dominate; lemon comes through at first followed by rich, fruity malt. It’s on the sweet side, but I don’t mind that in these dark, warming autumn ales. What it’s really let down by is that it’s too fizzy and too thin in the mouth, and that there’s a faint metallic tang. Can imagine this might be quite decent if you found it in good condition on cask. c8