16/8/2012. Cask at the 30th Ipswich Beer Festival.

50cl bottle. Pours amber to copper with steady bubbles and a nicely proportioned head. The nose has toffee, biscuits and a grassy/herby note. The taste has ginger biscuits and toffee. The palate is medium in structure and texture with a tangy and fairly refreshing finish. Overall, a decemt ale which I would describe as a bitter rather than an amber ale.

Cask-conditioned at the Halfway House, Edinburgh 7/06/2011. Amber coloured with a slight, off-white head. Sweetish, fruity aroma with a touch of leafy hop. Flavour had some caramel, hedgerow fruits and biscuity malts, leading to a bitter finish. Fine.

Bottle 500ml.Clear medium yellow amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, molasses, caramel, toffee, light hoppy, dusty. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, wood, cigar - tobacco. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110318] 6-2-6-3-13 Cask @ Le Gothique Restaurant and Bar, [ Wandsworth Common Beer Festival 2013 ]. Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, John Archer Way, Wandsworth, Greater London, England SW18 3SX.Clear medium amber orange color with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, wood, earthy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, caramel, straw, earthy hops, wood notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130330] 6-2-6-3-13

Bottle, courtesy of fonefan. It pours a clear, golden body with a white head. The aroma has a pleasant hoppyness, but also a buttery caramel touch. It’s dominated by the hops in the mouth, pleasant bitterness and a decent hop flavor, but I would like it less buttery. Medium body, nice carbonation. Overall, too much butterscotch, but a quite pleasant one. 110318

Bottle @ Norway/Denmark Tasting, Ulfborg. Pours amber golden with a small off white bubbly head. Nose is sweet. Toffee, butter and fruit. A bit ashy flavor with a note of vegetables and corn. Dry and short end.

From cask. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity and grassy. Bitter, dry malty to caramelish. Roasted and breadish. Dry malty and slight bitter to fruity hoppy finish.

@ The Bailie, Stockbridge. Dull golden-amber. Light caramel malt character. Fruity taste, with light caramel. Boring beer.

Cask at the Halfway House, Edinburgh, 20-03-09 on Craig’s crawl of Edinburgh’s finest establishments. Pours mid gold with a white head. There is a good dollop of honey on the nose and in the mouth, some sweet malts add to the mix and its a nice beer all told. A6 A4 F7 P4 OV14 3.5