Keg at Brixton Port Authority, 20/10/15. Hazed chestnut amber with a decent beige covering. Nose is nutty, caramel, modest spice, figgy jam, earthy. Taste comprises biscuit malt, light spice, pumpkin notes, toffee, candy apple. Medium bodied, prickly carbonation, semi drying close. Decent enough pumpkin affair, mellow flavours, good balance.

Gravity cask at the Wandsworth Common Halloween Beer Festival 2013 - Le Gothique. The beer pours lightly hazy gold with a fine, filmy white head. The nose has notes of fleshy pumpkin, pumpkin pie, nutmeg. Medium sweet with notes of dry, bready malts, further pumpkin pie and restrained cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s light to medium in body with fine carbonation. It finishes lightly sweet with great balance between the pumpkin character and the spices. While it’s simple to write off pumpkin beers as novelty, this offering shows you can make one that is balanced and drinkable.

Cask gravity at Wandsworth Halloween Fest 2013, as Spiced Pumpkin Ale. It pours deep amber with a small beige head. The nose is sweet pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper, squash, earth and faint ketchup. The taste is earthy, pumpkin, spice, decent bitterness, toast, spuash, vanilla, faint orange peel and spice with a dry, earthy finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. A rather nice pumpkin ale all in all.

Cask at Le Gothique Wandsworth Beer Festival. Poured a cloudy, bright orange colour with a scummy white head. Spicy aroma with caramel and malt. Rounded flavours of cloves, orange peal an molasses. Finishes with toffee, smooth chewy malt and coriander.