7

Magus, mõru, karamelline, linnaseline, tsitrus. Ok.

7

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

440ml can from Benny’s place, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a mostly clear medium amber colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is yeasty, light mineral citrus. The flavour is moderate bitter and sweet, with a fresh, warm, smooth, dry, yeasty, toffee treacle, hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

7.5

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

Cask (!) at the Hanging Bat. 5.8% Pours clear amber with a thin off-white head. Aromas of toffee and dried fruit. Taste is a little astringent, nutty, malty, mixed peel. Light bitter finish.

7.9

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

Cask at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Nose is toffee, caramel, red apple, jammy red fruits. orange marmalade. Same action in the taste. Jammy sweet red fruity malarkey. Lightly bitter. Very nice.

7.5

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

Malty, bready and wet hoppy with some mild bitterness, caramel, toasted notes and toffee. Old skool stuff, quite balanced

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can. Adnams Cellar, Holt. Soft haze on a copper colour. Slim clingy white head. Sweet fruity caramel malt. Background citrus hop. Touch of spicy hop. Whiff of tea. Taste is biscuit sweet up front with a generous spicy leafy bitterness. Smooth and tasty. Lingering bitterness to finish. Cracking bitter.

7.5

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

Can at home in Hackney - sourced from Clapton Craft. Pours clear, rich copper-gold with a dense, frothy yellowish head. Light sweet flavour with notes of toasted leaves, sun-kisses grains, a little earth, bread crust. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, more leafy hops, earth, dried leathery berries. Tasty stuff.

7.2

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

440ml can. Nutty brown with a good white head. Malty caramel aroma, flavour is caramel with some citrus hop. Decent

7.4

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

This is what a beer should look like. Clear amber, just a little carbonation, thick white head., Smells malty with a little zest and something sweet. Flavour has a bunch of malt in there up front, a bit of biscuit, light hop, just a dash of zesty sweetness and pine. Good body and a nice lasting bitterness. I love it when I get my hands on a bitter by brewers who know what a bitter should/can be when there are so many average ones knocking about. They don't add much to this that you wouldn't get ordinarily, it's just a very good version of the style.

7.4

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

440ml can. Amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma of toffee, caramel, malts. Taste of toffee, caramel, nutty/biscuity malts, fruity esters, drying in the finish with a lingering bitterness. Medium bodied. Solid ESB, bet it was lovely on cask.