Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask, gravity at Merton Winter Beer Festival 6th and 7th Feb 2009 Pours amber with a slight chill haze, nice white bubbly head tops things off. Initially the combination of malts makes its mark, because there are a lot of sweet chewy malts in there, in fact I even get some smokiness from somewhere at one point. The bitterness is present but its kept in check by the malts, occasional sweet fruitiness shows and I must try this again tomorrow because whilst I get hops they’re not in yer face or as pushy as I expected. This has been a popular beer tonight and I can see why, there’s a lot going on in that glass, it feels quite substantial at times and its a really interesting number, working behind the bar its a shame my notes weren’t more descriptive. A7 A3 F7 P4 OV14 3.5