Bottle from a shop in Totnes, Devon. Cloudy dark amber with a thin head. A fine full fruit flavoured ale. High fruit aroma too.

[500ml bottle that my Dad shared with me - cheers!] Pours a murky deep amber-red with no head. Rather sweet aroma. On tasting the honey is balanced by lemon hops and a good earthy bitterness in the finish. It’s still a bit weird though - I’ve never been convinced by honey beers.

Bottle 500ml.Clear medium yellow - orange amber colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, nutty, light to moderate hoppy. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, hoppy, light licorice hops. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120805]

36th CAMRA Cotswold beer festival in the lovely 15th century Tithe Barn was the setting for my tasting of this beer. Gravity poured half-pint: amber body with a thin covering of white bubbles on top. Produced with Devon Honey: I couldn’t detect any honey presence in either the aroma or taste but it did have an interesting feel to it. The nose was a mixed bag of smells: mild malty molasses and fruity esters blending together nicely. The taste was again malty, but the hop element came into its own a bit more and the beer had an underlying bitterness that was refreshing and crisp. As the mouth dried the hop dry bitterness became even more prominent. Should have had a pint (but so many beers to try).

Bottled@chriso. Goldeny amber colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, mild honey and some slight sea weedy notes. Flavour is fruity, mild honeyish notes, resin and some mild wooden notes. Quite a pleasant bitter.

bottle from Greendale Farmshop near Exeter. Intensive aroma of fresh, green hops (Boadicea hops), green plants. A very interesting hop profile that works very well with the solid malty background.