Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5

Notes from March 2009 Saw this item I didn't recall on cask at Rattle n Hum last week. Place was warmly lit, but the clarity of the beer was well inside its deep amber body. A fizzle of head. A whole pint is my serving. Good value for a midtown bar, but that is for another review. Smell was akin cough syrup, but with layers of scotch, hard water, & a mildly flowered bouquet. Crazy over-reaching flavors of burnt honey, toffee, ginger, rancid melon, salted nuts, & scotch... just too much of so much that it doesn't make sense. I'm one for old & buttered English ales, & am no stranger to cask, but this was very much like compost. Very offensive. Body did have a hint of carbonation. Syrupy, of course. Alcohol was decently hidden amid everything else, though I think I was just so distracted by its obscene greetings to care at this point. I was literally nauseous at the memory of it on the way back home. Never again.

21/03/2008. RAVEN, 7 Queen Street, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (FREE HOUSE)

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

From old notes. Cask @ Peterborough Beer Fest 2000. Last one of the day. Copper brown colour. Strong alcoholic, old ale-ish, estery, not much bitterness. A worthy beer to conclude this rather alcoholic day...

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Gravity cask at the 2018 Bedford Beer Festival. Toffee golden in colour with a loose white head. Sweet toffee, brown sugar, freshly baked bread, a bit of banana to breathe in and about. Sweet and just the right side of sickly. We often use 'toffee to describe a basic brown malty bitter, but this is really toffee, like sucking on a booze-laden Werthers Original. Having said that it hides the alcohol really well. Vegetal note on the finish which brings it down a bit. The body is thinner than most strong beers but it's by no means watery. Oily texture and flat carbonation. Really enjoyable. Yum.

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

Cask gravity at the Watford beer festival 2017. A clear golden orange amber coloured pour with a a halo of white head. Aroma is sweet nutty honey, honey monster cereal, earthy grains. Flavour is composed of sweet toffee, sweaty toffee, apple, booze malts, light woody. Palate is solvent, apple, toffee. Little hot.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

PoW Beer Fest, Farnborough. Whisky. Malty. Malt whisky aroma! Hazy amber. A vague white head. Sweet, extremely so. Dangerously pleasent palate. The equivilant of special brew and a Cadbury’s cream egg (I am informed by a former skinhead, oi oi oi).

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 2016, National Winter Ales Festival (2016), The Roundhouse, Pride Park, Derby, Derbyshire, England, DE24 8JE. [ As Burton Bridge Thomas Sykes ].Clear medium orange color with a virtually no head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity malt, honey, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, sweet malt, honey, alcohol, fruity. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light to light moderate alcoholic. Goes down very good. [20160217]

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

Gravicask shared with Finn at Camra’s National Winter Ales Festival. Warming golden-brown body colour. Not much head or lacing. Vinous smell,hints of alcohol. Almond, ripe fruits and caramel falvours. Prolonged ending with integrated alcohol. Medium bodied. Nice(Derby 17.02.2016)

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Fra cask/gravity på NWAF i Derby 17 Feb 16. Delt med Rune. Amber. 0 skum. Juice-aktig utseende. Sterk plommearoma. Mest sherry. Bakteppe av mandler. Smaken i søkk og kav. Masse plommer. Tørr etter hvert. Syrlig avslutning.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Pendle Beer Festival 2016. Golden-amber coloured. Extremely strong and spirit-like, with a dire taste - I was not the only person at the festival to feel this way about it, but given the decent reviews on RB it may not have travelled too well to the festival.