7.5

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

Can at home in Hackney - picked up from Clapton Craft OG. Pours clear yellow-gold with a creamy, white topping. Medium sweet flavour with notes of gooey pine needles, semi-ripe citrus, bready pale malts, mellow bitterness. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, notes of sweet pale mats, pine needles, ripening lemon, a little grass, rind. Tasty in general.

8

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

440ml can. Clear golden, white head. Aroma of grapefruit, resin, little dankness, caramel. Taste is citrusy, orange and grapefruit, very resinous, pine, slightly vinous, biscuity and caramel malts, nice bitterness. Medium bodied. Great westie.

7.4

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

Sweetish, stingy grassy and grapefruity with some lemon, apricot and hints of bitterness.

7.4

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

(Keg at Craft Beer Garden 2024 Friday session) The beer poured deep golden and nearly clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had ripe apricot, pine and resin. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were ripe apricots, resin, pine, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was hoppy and bitter. Tasty and dry hoppy brew.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Rocky white head on an unclear golden coloured body. Orange, stewed fruits & resinous aroma. Medium bodied, smooth with a sharp dry back - very dry. Resin, dank, pith, bubble gum, pine & stone fruit tastes with an extremely bitterly hopped finish. Proper Old School West Coast - Love it.

7

Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - golden orange and clear with a thin white head. Nose - orange, canned peach and cantaloupe melon. Taste - more tinned stone fruit, soft melon and orange zest. Palate - medium bodied with a tangy bitter sweet middle and a dry, tangy finish. Overall - lovely balance.

8.2

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

Can from The Beer Cave. Crystal clear golden body with a thin white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of Lockets and lemongrass. Flavour of melon, lemon and honey. Medium body with a slick texture. Soft fizz. A delicious old school IPA - crisp and bitter.

7.9

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

Keg at Newbarns Taproom. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Strong herbal and pine aromas. Taste adds orange zest. Bitter finish.