6.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Cask at Jewellers Arms, Birmingham. Pours golden amber with a medium sized foamy off-white head and excellent lacing. There’s a strong aroma of citrus with tangerine and melon there as well. In the mouth it is sweet and creamy but with a little underlying bitterness which gradually increases. Flavour has floral hops, stoen fruit and melon with hints of kiwi and lychee coming later. Finish is quite bitter. This is reasonable but too much fruity sharpness for my palate.

6.8

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

Bottle from local garden centre. Pours a clear amber with small off-white top, modest retention. Aroma of mixed dried fruits notably apricot, and flora. Taste of biscuit, burnt caramel, citrus rind, apricot, earthy and leafy bitter hop. Medium bodied, semi-drying. Decent. [Hops: UK Cascade, First Gold, Pilgrim]

6.9

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

Cask (Sandford Park Alehouse, Cheltenham) - Golden in colour. Biscuity malt and citrus in the aroma. Citrussy and slightly biscuity taste. Pretty easy to drink.

7

Cask at the bull baiter... Golden... Thin white lacing.. Soft peppery lemon fruit.. Soft sweet juicy peppery lemon

6.5

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

Bottle in Broadstairs, from Wayside Farm Shop, 09/10/22. Clear deep golden with an off white cap that settles to a swirl. Nose is light citric zest, grass, pale malts, breads, hedgerow. Taste comprises orange pale, airy malts, toasted grains, bready notes, citric tinged straw. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a mellow bitter edge. It's fine.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle. Pours dark orange gold with a small head. Aroma is hedgerow fruits, toast and boiled sweets. Taste has boiled sweets and dry hedgerow fruits.

3.2

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 13

Bottle from Gloucester Services. Pours clear pale golden amber with an off-white cap. Aroma: citrus, earthy hops, floral, grass. Taste: moderate sweet & bitter, earthy, citrus, hedgerow hop. Medium body with soft carbonation.

6

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

Cask half-pint at The Anvil, Shifnal on 22nd August 2021. Slight haze in the amber body, white head. Decent enough blend, mild maltiness in the nose and initial taste, hop bitterness arrives mid-sip.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pale amber / deep gold with a frothy white head, and a slightly burnt caramel and floral aroma. The taste kicks off with a bitter kick, citrus notes up front with more floral characteristics in the background, with some sweet fruit malt also evident. The finish is long with a pretty high level of astringency

7

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

[50cl bottle from Westholme Stores, Goring.] A bright amber pour with a close white head; dusty floral aroma; taste of apple and caramel, with an earthy bitterness to finish. Very drinkable.