Bottled. Golden colour, small foamy beige head. Aroma is sweet malts, some cardboard, mild alcohol and some glueish/rubbery notes. Flavour is quite much the same. Rather sweet notes in the finish.

Bottle, picked up at Tuckers Maltings, Newton Abbott 14-11-06. Poured a reddy/brown colour and was indeed very strong tasting, think I might upset the applecart a bit with my rating because although I didn’t not like it I found it a bit messy, alcohol too present and just a bit rough. It wasn’t sweet and it did have some positives but all in all not really my thing.

Colour: hazy-red as fox, but darker; white-cream head, bit irregular. Nose: English hops, chalk, blueberries, also smell of biscuits. Iron oxide smell in head!! Taste: immediately biscuit/malts, then huge, but fine, dose of hops. Mouthfeel: rather thinnish at first, seems to fill in afterwards. Aftertaste: hops linger on; start of slight burning sensation as from ginger cake or preserved ginger. This beer stands out; English strong ales have a nasty tendency towards cloying sweetness. Nothing of this here: hops to the fore. Whatever the thinnish-chalk impression induces, stays unclear to me.