Bottle on the second train tasting, black country beer bus bash. Some plasticy phenols. Bready malt, with some alcohol presence. Sticky. Some higher alcohols.

Bottle on the Black Country Train Tasting Part ZWEI, 06/07/13, thanks to Leighton. Guussshhheeerrrrrrrrrrr ALERT - 65% lost ! Murky mahogony brown brown with a thin tan head. Nose is liqourice, fruits, herbal, menthol tones, toffee. Taste comprises dark fruits, sugars, liqourice, spice, dark malts. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Passable.

Reddish-brown. Rich malts, sugar sticky with cinnamon and lots of clove. Very clovey on the palate, too, with cinnamon and maybe some fruits and lots of sticky malts.

1st December 2010
Pigs Ear. Clear brown beer, ghost of a white head. Light palate, light coca cola and milk chocolate. A little licorice. Some repressed fruit. Semi dry finish. As Leighton said - vaguely Pumpkin beer like. Not bad though.

Cask at the Pig’s Ear BF 2010. Pours dark amber-brown with a filmy head. Rich pumpkin and spice aroma with some malts. Very sweet flavor, tons of pumpkin, nutmeg and other "winter" spices, and some bread. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Spicy finish with nutmeg and cinnamon, pumpkin, bread and ginger, and light bitterness. Pretty damn good. I liked it. (3.9)

Bottle during the High Speed Tasting Pt. II on the train back to London. I bought this one at Cotteridge Wines. It was a MASSIVE gusher. Pours cloudy brown with a light, off-white cream head. Spices in the nose, some brown bread. Medium sweet flavor with nice wintery spices, nutmeg. Light to medium bodied with fine, average carbonation. It’s a tasty, spicy winter ale. But a fuckin’ awful gusher it was too. (3.6)

Cask (handpump) @ Wenlock Arms, 26 Wenlock Road, London, Greater London England N1 7TA.Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, carame, spices, cinnamon, cloves. Flavor is light light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, spices. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light spicy and alcoholic burn. [20091228]

Cask@The Wenlock Arms, London. Dark ambery brown colour with mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is spices, plum, alcohol as well as some sweet maltyness. Flavour is quite much the same in a nice balance.

Cask-conditioned at the Royal Oak, Bath, winter festival 21/02/09. Dark brown with a decent, off-white head. Spicy, clove and cinnamon aroma with some sweet malts. Flavour had some red fruit, raisins and more of the same spices in the background, ending with a decent bitter finish. Good.