Cask at Brewharf, Stoney Street, Borough, Southwark, London in company of Loz & Ang, Saturday 26th October 2013 Pours black with some glints of red, Amongst the blizzard of hops on the nose I also get some sweaty socks. Lovely tasting beer with grapefruit showing, it is bitter, really bitter, dry and furiously bitter and like the standard version this leaves a furriness on the roof of my mouth, however like the other version I marginally prefer the Hopfather 2 but Loz is also totally won over by this. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov14 3.6

Cask at the brew pub London. Dark brown black oily pour with a fleeting thin light tan head. Nose is burnt toast with pine and some citrus. Flavour is wood, toast and roast. Assertive bitter pine finish, added to by some rough roast. Slight flabby palate with mid-low carbonation. Rough round the edges,but decent enough.

Cask at the brewpub - London. Pours clear brown-black with a bubbly tan head. The nose is all burnt pine, wood, dirt. Light sweet flavor with oily burnt pine, earth, grass. Light bodied with soft carbonation. Aggressively hoppy to finish, lightly astringent, with further pine oils, dirt and grass. Lots of whole leaf raw hoppiness in here - a bit too much for me.