Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival 2019. Cask @ Hedley Verity, Leeds. Dark clear red with a creamy head. Is malty and tarty, with a bitterness in its finish. Its berry notes are not too evident.

Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW) Bristol, March 2019. Copper in colour, with a thin, off-white, head. Red berries, caramel, digestive malts, and a gently bitter finish. Ok.

Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW) Reading. I'm a big fan of elderberries. Each autumn my wife and I collect elderberries and make elderberry jam. I also make elderberry sauces to go with pork and lamb. I love elderberries. Do I was looking forward to this beer. It's an attractive deep mahogany colour with a loose beige head. There's toffee and wood to the fore, some lightly roasted malt and cappuccino, with a generic dark berry taste behind. There's a creamy texture, and a lightly dry finish with more wood it. There's a touch of leaf mulch, but it's not quite the full on elderberry flavour (ie blackcurrant mixed with woodland floor) thar I was hoping for. It's an ESB with fruity hints, that strays into porter territory at times. It's not a patch on my wife's jam, but I still quite like it.

Cask at the Standing Order. Pours clear dark red with a thin off-white head. Aromas of elderberry and light faint caramel. Taste is sweet red berries. Not bad. Not very beery mind.

Cask at the standing order. Pours reddish brown, nose is berries, toffee, floral, taste is sweet, fruity, juicy.

Cask handpull at Crosse Keys Spoons. Deep red brown colour lasting beige head. Malty best bitter. Sweetish malt. Malty aroma. Not much if any hop. Sweet malt beer building berry sweetness

On cask at the Standing Order. Appearance - deep autumnal red. Nose - blackcurrant and bready. Taste - big blackcurrant note with dry biscuit at the back. Palate - creamy through the middle and dry on the finish. Close to medium bodied. Overall - good.