Bottle 2004 vintage. Pale amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is caramel, oxidation, cellar. flavour is caramel, oxidation, cellar, fruit, dried fruits. Full body. OK beer.

Bottle 500ml. [ Vintage 2004 ]. Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity, vintage, old furniture, dried fruit notes. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120622]

Bottle 500ml vintage 2004 @ fonefan
Pours clear deep golden with a white head. Aroma has notes malt, caramel and oxidization. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Bottle, 2004 vintage. An almost clear one, dark golden in color and with a small, dense, off-white head. Musty cellar and some oxidation on the nose, rather fruity and with a hint of dried fruits. Full-bodied and dry, with flavors of oxidation, some caramel, both dried and fresh fruits and a little bitterness. A quite decent one, bearing the age well. 120622

Bottle, 2004. Slightly hazy amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel and toffee. Flavour is malt, caramel, toffee, little oxidized, medium sweet, hops, little berries and a little bitter.

Bottled (2nd CS/ES Beer Gathering, thanks JP!). Old bottle with BBE 2007. Ambery brown colour with small off-white head. Aroma is sweetish malts along with some fruity and floral notes. Quite nutty and mildly spicy as well. Flavour is fruity and floral hops along with sweet malts, spices, some berries as well as mild honeyish notes. Has held rather well.

Bottle: pours a bright chestnut with off-white head; hint of orange and spice on the nose; grapefruit and malt in the mouth with an understated bitterness.

500ml bottle (bb.; May 07) bought at Sainsburys, St. Albans last September and enjoyed on a Saturday eve at home. Inviting golden brown body with great clarity, laceworks and some white foam. Discreet fresh floral aroma. Malty flavoured impression combined with hops and herbs. Velvet mouthfeel. Vague, but elegant bitter finish (16.12.2006).

500ml bottle in a presentation tin from Ashford Sainsbury. Oh man, there has been 4 days since I had a new beer and opening this was quite exciting. Beautifully clear copper colour. Thin lasting head. Young’s yeast aroma with lovely intense hop (sherberty grapefruit) and maybe a hint of cinnamon/nutmeg spice. Very pleasant in mouth,but lacks any real depth of body and there is that typical boiled sweet quality to the malt that is so disappointing in UK pasteurised bottled beer. I had the London Special Ale on train on way home and the mouthfeel is just so much better with the bottle conditioned. The big grapefruity earthy hop is similar. Slightly creamy /sweet. Nice grapefruit on end. Enjoyable beer, but could be so much better. Cask gravity at Pigs Ear BF 07. Russet, good lasting head. Young’s yeast aroma, quite a good best bitter, good peppery hop/spic sting on end. Actually really nice. Creamy and drinkable. 4.3%