Cask (backlog). Orangeish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is floral, fruity, mild wooden and toffeeish notes along with some herbs and wood. Flavour is wooden, resiny, buttery and caramelly with some mild nutty notes. Apart from the buttery notes this was quite ok.

Cask @ The Speaker, Westminster SW1. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel and honey aroma with some hoppy hints. Fruity malty nutty caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.

Cask [gravity] at EBF 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark. Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, apple, buttery notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. 120908

(Cask at Speaker, Westminster, London, 21 Nov 2008) Amber colour with frothy, beige head. Fruity, malty nose with biscuity malt, orange peel and earthy hops. Fruity, malty taste with notes of orange, biscuits ans earthy, citrussy hops in the finish. Doesn’t really shake my world, but its definitely well made, balanced and tasty. In short: biscuits and orange in nice harmony.

Cask at EBF 2008, on Saturday September 13Hazy golden, white head. Some diacetyl, sweet, fruity scent. Sweet faint taste. Thin mouthfeel, low bitterness.

cask, EBF2008 aroma was quite faint, appears clear yellow , smooth head. sweet smooth typical british ffeel to it, slight bitter in the end.

Clear golden with tiny white head. Sweet malty aroma with caramel notes. Flavour likewise with floral hops that gives it a bitter finish.

From cask. Pours slight cloudy and golden orange with a lacing white head. Mild fruity and hoppy aroma. Goes into a nice bitter and light fruity flavour with a mild bitterness and slight spice note showing through. Slight dry malty into the finish.

[on draught at the Allied Arms, Reading] Now, all of us remember the actually-rather-good adverts for John Smiths, all based around the tagline "No Nonsense Beer". And a significant proportion of real ale enthusiasts immediately thought (and often vocalised) that the tagline for John Smiths should be "No Flavour Beer". Now the reason why I bring this particular ad up is that I’ve found the beer that it should have been used for - Archers Best. Pours a deep reddish-amber, with a small but lasting creamy head. There’s a hint of dusky red fruits there, and there’s a dry, bitter, but very well-balanced finish. But primarily this is just a great example of a traditional English bitter, and one that goes down a treat - it would make a great session beer. I have to say, after having tried a series of "complex" high strength British beers and trappist ales over the last couple of months, it made a refreshing change to have a "no nonsense" beer like this.