Oakleaf Dragon on the Floor

Cask at the Cleveland Arms - London. Pours amber-gold with a tight, creamy head. Lovely fruits in the nose, berries, some learhery fruits, suggestions of toasty leaves. Light to medium sweet flavor, dry and toasty bready malts, mild leafy bitterness, dry berries. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Superb condition. Moderate leafy bitterness to finish, some dry bread, dry berries, toasty bread, earth. A very standard beer served in top nick. Not bad.

Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Ambery red colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, syruoy with some mild vanilla and nuttyness. Flavour is wood, herbs, some toasted notes and mild floral notes as well. Balanced and good bitter.

(Cask at Harp, Covent Garden, London, 20 April 2012) Reddish amber colour with foamy, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with caramel, orange peel, nuts and citric hops. Malty, fruity taste with notes of caramel, nuts, dried fruit, orange peel and a generous citric bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Tasty bitter with a fresh hop profile. Nice one.

Cask (gravity) @ The 16th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2010, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, chessnuts - earth - nutty, moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, nutty, malty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100430]

Cask gravity at Reading BF 2010. Brown amber colour. Some amber malt on aroma, some biscuit. Not much hop, but fine. Lakcs a touch of condition, lasting dryness on finish.