Cask at the Queens Head, Wordsley. Pours pale gold with a small head. Aroma is eggy straw. Taste has straw throughout with an eggy finish. Flabby mouthfeel.

Handpull cask at the Salmon, Leicester. It's a comely little beer: straw-coloured and clear with a big and slightly fluffy white head. The smell brings up a lot of things: soap, lemon zest, grapefruit, maybe a touch of wet dog. My nose gets used to it and decides that it's actually quite pleasant. Bittersweet taste with pithy bitter hops, and a slight atringency toward the finish. More grapefruit and a littlr soap in the aftertaste. The light body is nicely lifted by natural carbonation as this beer is in perfect condition. Verdict: unlikely to go down in hiatory as one of the great APAs but it's certainly a pleasant cask sessioner.