11/2/2019. Bottle from Tuffins Supermarket, Craven Arms. Poured golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, hops, bread and light fruit. Medium sweetness and moderate bitterness. Moderate body, slight oily texture, soft carbonation.

Bottle from Tuffins, Craven Arms. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are grain, malt, bread, hops and has a sweet malty finish.

Bottle from Tuffins, Craven Arms. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and light hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 110219

Bottled. Golden colour small white head. Aroma is some floral notes and some slight maltiness and some herbal notes. Quite a typical golden ale in many ways, including the flavour. Not much special to see.

Bottle 500ml (PBF IX)
Clear golden color, small white head. Earthy spiceyness in the nose. Light to medium-bodied. Spicey hoppyness. Very English. Short finish.

65 cl bottle @ PBF Ⅸ, BBE 03/2013
Aroma is rather fruity with lots of apricot. Flavour has apricot, hay, some English hops and grainy tones. Feels dry. Nice, but the flavour is a bit short. Also the growing feeling of English hops disturb me a bit here.

50cl bottle from Tanners. Shrewsbury. Pours golden with gentle bubbles and a slim head which disappears quickly. The nose is of lemon and grapefruit fruit with a hint of background hay. Taste of lemon curd and soggy cornflakes. Palate is light to medium in body with a tangy texture and a fairly fresh finish. Overall very drinkable if not exceptional.

Brown 500ml bottle, best before end of Feb 2010, drank mid Dec 2009. Poured into my vase shaped pint glass. Voted Britains best bitter in 2004 by SIBA (Small Independant Breweries Association). The beer was first brewed to celebrate the legend of a fairy who hid gold in a south Shropshire beauty spot (Bury Ditches). Light amber, more than the dull gold I described the cask version. It is light for a normal UK bitter, but this is brewed using Pale Ale and Lager malted barley. The white head left loads of lacing as the beer was consummed. The smell is a little different to the cask version also, the hops take over completely, they have used Fuggles and the American Cascade and Mount Hood hops. I am sure they are in the cask beer too, just not as prominent in the aroma. The beer has a dry feel to it and a bitterness which leans towards grapefruit and other citrus sour flavours. Both the dryness and bitterness are there from the start but the intensity grows towards the end of the mouthfeel. This is the second UK beer I’ve reviewed today that has used Lager malts, this one is far superior to the first. It has a presence, depth and something to say.