10/5/2018. Cask at the Split Chimp, Newcastle. Curiously a beer with 10 ratings over the last 12 years, many quite unfavourable. Seems to have improved with time. Pours amber brown with a lasting creamy just off-white head. Aroma of hop, biscuit, malt, caramel, fruit and flowers. Moderate sweetness and medium bitterness. Moderate body, slight oily texture, soft carbonation. Not spectacular but a decent and very respectable bitter.

Cask (Isis, Sunderland) - Dark amber in colour. Dried apricot, raisins and toffee in the aroma. Fruity and malty taste with notes of raisins, sultanas and dried apricot detected.

Cask at the Old Joint Stock; hazy amber pour with foamy beige head, fruity aroma, taste had red fruits are hint of nut, a bit of caramel, moderate bitter.

Cask at the Sussex Arms, Twickenham Green, 12/01/13. Hazed reddish brown with a good sized off white head. Nose is pretty bland, cardboard and paper, pale malt, light sugars, trace of fruit. Taste holds a little more depth, caramel, toffee, little grass. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation and some dry bitterness in the finish. Not one to revisit !