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

Bottle from Micro Beer Crate @ 8.5%. Pours a cloudy amber with lively white head. Aroma is sweet and slightly bready malts, yeast, marmalade and brown sugar. Interesting! Taste follows nose with a sweet, lightly sticky and boozy number with marmalade and zesty orange peel notes, floral hops with a decent bitterness. Sticky mouthfeel with a high frothy carbonation. A warming number, quite tasty, arguably a little rough around the edges but has an authentic old skool vibe to it.

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

330ml bottle as part of a delivery from the brewery. Drunk at home. Brownish gold, clear with a half-ring of off-white head. Golden syrup, raisins, marmalade on toast, cough syrup in the aroma with a light grassy character. Sweetctaste to the fore with some fairly intense bittering hop hitting the back of the tongue. Light vegetal character just before the finish. Thick, oily body; little on the way of carbonation. Well done.

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

Pale brown colour with thin head. Aroma is very grassy. Sweet taste. Quite syrupy and fruity. Tinned peaches. The grassy element is there in the taste too which is a slight detraction.

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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle ordered from Beer Shop HQ, St Albans. Aroma is sweet - syrupy dried fruit. Opaque amber. Thick foamy white head with healthy lacing. Light-medium woody and boozy bitter streak. Followed by sweet dried fruit and sweeter marmalade. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long somewhat astringent finish. Nice. A lite Barley Wine.

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

Bottle at home, from the brewery, 24/12/21. Clear deep copper with a good sized just white head. Nose is fruit cake mix, nutty, dark malts, dates, figs, toffee. Taste comprises toffee, raisins, hint of molasses, spice, caramel, dates, figs, brown bread, fruit slice. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light spike of alcohol. Decent old Skool barley wine.

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

330ml bottle. Golden amber colour, white foam head leaving alittle lacing and aroma of dried fruits, orange, honey hint. Taste is sweet malty, toffee, caramel, with fruity & citrus orange marmalade notes and tangy bitterness. Medium bodied, medium to soft carbonation, dry boozy finish. Quite drinkable.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle. Pours a hazy light amber colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is grainy malt, light toffee caramel, light floral hop. The flavour is moderate to light sweet, with a smooth, rich toffee, light boozy, light floral hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with lively initial carbonation.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle [courtesy of Grumbo - cheers Graham!]. Hazy, orangey dark golden to amber colour with average, frothy, slowly osteoporosing, minimally lacing, white head with sulphureous nuances. Somehow muesli-like aroma, notes of fruit, dried fruit, cereals, a touch of honey, caramel, raisin, dried apricot, yellow apple, toffee. Taste is sweet-ish malty and slightly fruity hoppy, notes of marzipan, honey, dried fruit, yellow apple, hints of raisin, dried apricot, a touch of cereals, caramel, toffee, bitter hoppy counterpart; minimally overcarbonated. Well balanced, harmonious and mature - in the sense of a constantly refined recipe over the years.