6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask gravity at Platform pop-up bar, Croydon. It pours deep red-brown with a small bubbly beige head. The nose is sweet, dried fruits, raisin, fig, caramel, toasty, earth and warming spice in background. The taste is bitter-sweet, spicy, toffee, toasty brown bread, dried fruit, earth, leather, varnish and wood with a rather dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Perhaps a bit too dry on the finish. Fine festive fayre.