Bottle 33cl. @ LCRBM09 - Low Countries RateBeer Meeting V, Kulminator, Antwerpen, Belgium.Hazy medium yellow orange golden color with a average, frothy, good - fair lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toaste, fruity, light hoppy, perfume. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to light moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090905]

Bottle:Hazy, golden, small off-white head; hoppy nose with juicy malt underneath; slightly sourish bitter-sweet flavour, relatively light bodied; lingering fruity-hoppy finish. A good one........

[9/5/09] Bottle sample during LCRBM at Kulminator in Antwerp. Murky orange. Aroma of wheat, light graininess, apple, some other fruits and bubblegum. Sweet flavor with yeast, wheaty and fruity esters. Medium-bodied.

33 cL bottle, courtesy of PhilL. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild spiced, dry malty too. Bitter, slight metallic and yet also smooth spiced and caramelish. Light bitter and dry finish.

On tap at the Hinds Head, Bray, Berkshire, 08-08-09 on leg seven of the Thames Tipple. After the initial shock of paying £4.20 a pint I sat down to rate this. Pours mid-gold with a white head. Some cereal on the nose, tangy and fruity with bitterness and touch sweet but not bad. A6 A3 F6 P3 Ov12 3.0

33cl bottle from Waitrose. Hazy amber with a thin ring of white head; a weizen-style aroma with honey, cloves and banana; very prickly in the mouth, and not as sweet as expected, an austere grainy body with spicy lingering finish; overall rather flat with no carbonation - perhaps a dud bottle.

[330ml bottle from Waitrose, Marlow] Rather a rip-off paying £2.09 for an average-ABV 330ml bottle - and looking at the brewery website, it appears this is down to the brewer’s pricing rather than Waitrose. Pours a dark gold with a large and lasting foamy white head. Quite high carbonation for an ale, giving a prickly mouthfeel. Malt, citrus and tropical fruits in the aroma - a pleasant smelling beer. Flavour is strongly of citrus; sweet on the tongue but with some sourness following. A sticky mouthfeel means this is not as refreshing as many golden ales; could do with a little more bitterness (and it’s not often you here me saying that!). A bit of sponge cake and floral perfume in the finish. The more I drank this the more I liked it - it’s an interesting beer with a lot of potential, but just needs a little refinement and something to cut through the stickiness - and perhaps the carbonation could be taken down a notch, along with the price?!