Cask at CBC Clerko, 24/04/17. Light reddish amber with a decent off white head. Nose is caramel, earthy hops, biscuit, light tropical fruit rinds. Taste comprises blood orange, toasted bread, pine flicker, cheese cake base, straw, tropical fruit medley. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with pretty aggressive hop bitterness for the ABV. Solid session gear.

Cask at Craft Clerkenwell - London. Pours clear copper with a foamy topping. The nose holds toasted pine, grass, grains. Lightly sweet with aggressive grassy bitterness, leaves, pine, toasted grains. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes with harsh bitterness, more grass, raw pine. Overly bitter.

Cask at CBC Clerko for the tap takeover. It doesn’t look like a session ipa. A nut brown copper coloured pour with a lasting loose greyish head. Aroma is citrus and bark, tobacco, amber malts, burnt orange. Flavour is composed of nutty malts with toasted toffee, rustic autumnal notes and assertive woody bark and pine needles hop.. Palate is medium bodied, ok condition, little chewy hop resin. Big lingering hop kick.

Cask at Euston Tap West. Clear amber brown with a thick off white head. Aroma of cheesy malt, roast, grapefruit and pomelo. Flavour is above light sweet and heavy bitter. Light to light medium bodied with very soft carbonation.

Cask, handpump at The Shoulder of Mutton, Wantage, Oxon, Tuesday 31st December 2013 (New Years Eve) Pours reddy brown, it is difficult to categorise this beer however as Gazza has described this as a half IPA and as this doesn’t sit anywhere else very comfortably then it will have to go under IPA until a half IPA category is formed which if you have DIPA then half IPA doesn’t sound to unreasonable. Btw the reddy brown colour of this automatically ruled out lumping it into a APA or Golden Ale slot. Reddy brown in colour, initially quite a snappy, fruity hoppy bite from the hops which softens a touch but not a lot. Punches above its weight for the abv. I was only able to have a small sample as driving but a really nice low abv hop forward beer. Really fruity and fresh, good stuff. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8