7.5

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

Cask at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Nose is chocolate biscuit, caramel, currants, red apple. Taste is a nice mix of the above. Malty sweet with a sharp bitter edge.

7.3

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

7.5

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

Cask at the portculus taphouse. A mostly clear reddish copper coloured pour with a halo of greyish head. Aroma is resin, brown sugars, autumnal notes, liquorice, layered malts. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, layered malts, piney resin, brown sugars, nice. Palate is semi sweet, resin, sticky hop, decent cask condition.

7.3

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

Cask at the Portcullis tap, Portchester, South Coast Jolly Boys Day Out 20/09/2025.
Chestnut brown with a thing beige cap that clears to the edge.
Nose is biscuit, orange peel, earthy hops, straw.
Taste comprises toffee, light sweet edge to it, biscuit, orange peel, pine nibble.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close punctured with earthy hop bitterness.
Solid cask brown.

7

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

Cask at Egham Beer Fest Autumn 24. Aroma has a prickly resinous to it. Chocolate and malts. Opaque dark chestnut brown. Thick foamy light beige head. Medium-heavy bitter. Resinous. Spicy. Underlying caramel and malts. But it's the resin that leads precedings. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish.

7.8

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

Cask. Gravity dispense. Steel City Beer Festival. Hurray! A cask in decent nick here. Clear dark brown. Decent beige suds. Light coffee and chocolate malts. A tad earthy. Leafy hop. Some sweetness and decent hop bitterness. Smooth tasty easy drinking.

8

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

Cask at The Brew Tavern. Dark brown colour with a pale head. Malty and caramel. Hints of sweet fruit. Medium body.

7.5

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

Cask at the Kings Arms - Buckfast Street. Pours clear red-brown with a frothy, light khaki head. Light sweet flavour with nice earthy hops, burnt leaves, cocoa, ashy roast, burnt toast. Light bodied with fine carbonation, decent condition. Bitter finish, lightly drying, more well toasted semi-dark malts, earth and dirty leaves. Nice overall.