Old rating from Jul 2014 - Pint from the cask at The Union Inn, Moretonhampstead. Pours reddy brown with a small white head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, earth, toffee, bread & malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish

Bottle. A gift from Totnes. The person not the place. Clear amber with a decent off white foam. This is utterly nondescript. There’s nothing wrong with it as such. But there’s nothing to say about it either. Pointless.

Creamy off white head on a reddish brown body. Toffee & bitter aroma. Medium bodied, smooth with tingly foamed finish. Malt, toffee, spiced fruit & raisin tastes with a bitter finish. Deece.

31/12/2019. Bottle from Topsham Wines, Topsham. Pours clear amber with a lasting bubbly off-white head. Aroma of toffee, malt, hops, fruit, slight nut and bready notes. Medium sweetness, light bitterness. Light body, watery texture, soft carbonation. Decent aroma and good looking but lacked body and bitterness.

Fles 50cl thuis. Wat dun, malttonen, hoptonen, niet zo bitter, gemiddeld. (1-2018).

On cask at the Cove, Outer Cove. Appearance - amber with a proportionate head. Nose - light toffee and cereal. Strawberry jam. A bit jammy dodgers. Taste - more jammy dodgers. Tangy red fruits and cereal. Palate - light to medium bodied with a crunchy texture and a dry crunchy finish. Overall - a decent bitter.

[31/3/13, 500ml bottle rebadged for National Trust "A La Ronde Best" that my Dad shared with me - cheers!] A slightly hazy effervescent amber bitter with a large cream head. Good mouthfeel - a bottle conditioned ale that actually achieves the mouthfeel of cask ale. Orange and lots of bread yeast up front, with some herbs. Rather astringent in the finish, with a spicy, earthy bitterness afterwards. I liked it initially but swiftly went off it and struggled to finish it. 7/3/4/4/9. [Re-rate, 1/8/14, cask at the Cherub Inn, Dartmouth rebadged as "Tolchards Devon Coast"> Stupid, stupid cheating fecky rebadges. Though this was a new brewery. Bastards. It’s not even like it was a decent beer that I particularly wanted to re-rate. This time it’s dull amber with a thin white head. Very bland - just a slight floral and citrus hint as if someone wavd a hop pellet vaguely in the brewery once upon a time. That said, there’s no off notes, and the beer has a reasonable enough body and is quite thirst quenching; it’s just completely dull, as if a competent brewer was asked to make a beer on such a low budget that he couldn’t afford enough hops. 5/3/5/3/10

Bottle 500ml.Clear medium orange colour with a small, virtually none, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, nutty, caramel, dusty malt, victorian furniture. Flavour is moderate sweet and light acidic with a average to long duration, dry, caramel, thin fruity tart. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20120805]