21st January 2013
Almost clear red - brown beer. Small pale tan head. Palate is light and semi dry with moderate carbonation. Sweet malt and a little aniseed. Good fruits - sweet cherry and orange and lesser generic fruits and red berries. Light neutral finish. A sweet fruity bock!

Cask (gravity) @ The 18th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, strawberry. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120502]

Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Deep amber colour, small head. Aroma is fruits, wood, toffee and mild ripe fruits along with ome chocolate. Flavour is sweet malts, spices, some alcohol and mild gluelike notes.

[Cask at Reading BF] Red with a slight off-white head. Lovely frothy mouthfeel. Banana at first develops into a sweet fruitiness. Spicy ginger in the lightly bitter, slightly dusty finish. Interesting. c7

Cask gravity at Reading BF 2012. Clear deep orange with beige head. Its got sticky toffee. Its pretty good. Some fruit. Pretty decent. I liked it.

Gravity cask at the Bree Louise. Pours murky ruby with no head. Dark fruit nose, heavy prunes, grapes, raisins, cranberries. Very sweet flavor, lots of ripe fruit sugars, some caramel and toffee, bit of booze and dry leaves. Medium to full in body with soft carbonation. Sweet, light sticky finish, mild warmth, some alcohol present, more ripe fruit. Pretty good. (3.7)

Gravity cask at the Bree Louise - London (again). Pours clear russet with a filmy off-white cream head. Lots of ripe, tangy fruits in the nose, some toffee. Big sweet flavor with plenty of booze, semi-dark and ripe fruits, cherries, plums, raisins. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish, lightly warming, with toasted sugars, rich bread, ripe fruits, plums and cherries, mild tang, light booze, caramel. Lasting toasty sugars. Very decent stuff. OK balance. Pretty full character. (3.6)

Cask-conditioned at the Three Tuns, Bristol 16/06/2011. Medium brown with a slight, off-white head. Sweet, caramel and berry fruit aroma. Flavour had plenty of toffee, a touch of chocolate and more fruits, leading to a sweetish finish. Good.