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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask at Merton Summer Beer and Cider Festival, Merton, Oxon, 18-07-09 Pours warm gold in colour with a good white head, looks wise its great and only bettered by the Millstone Tiger Rut. I had this a few times over the weekend and my initial rating of 3.5 just kept moving north. There was some stunning tropical fruits going on in this beer with banana and as the description says melon, wonderfully flavoursome beer. If I had one criticism then it was possibly a tad sweet but this was a very minor niggle. Really tasty beer that flew out of the cask, first beer to sell out by a country mile and if I’d have put out beer of the festival slips I’m in no doubt this would have won. Surprisingly easy drinking, not overly bitter, even at 6.5% a lot of people who are session beer drinkers got onto this and stayed on it, it was very moreish. Great stuff, that I had to mark up each time I tried it. Cheers to Richard Leighton for brewing this for Merton. A7 A5 F8 P4 Ov16 4.0