Cask@Reading Beer Festival 2012. Orangeish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is caramel malts, mild toffee, some bready notes with quite zesty and citrusy notes as well. Flavour is similar with mild nutty and resiny notes as well. Pleasant and refreshing.

(Cask at Black Door, 20120606) The beer poured amber and clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had sweetness, malts and toffee. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, sweetness, toffee, grass and bitterness. Aftertaste was malty and bitter. A clean, flawless and also a bit boring bitter.

Cask at the Standard Bearer (JDW), Stevenage. Deep amber with a parse cream head; light citrus aroma with some grassy hops; slightly tart fruit flavour, then a pleasant prolonged nettley bitterness, mixed with some meadow hay. Clean and refreshing.

Cask gravity at Reading BF 2011. Light brown colour. Thin beige collar of bubbles. More toffee malt than anything else. Some peppery hop but mostly a toffeeish bitter. Not overly hoppy. Fine.

Cask (gravity) @ The 16th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2010, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, butter, moderate hoppy, orange - citrus notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100429]