Bottle at home ... Dark amber bit loose foam head ... pine hop resins ... good fruit tangy ... little soapy ... but loads of citrus and pine ... quite drying ... well balanced... lots of building piney hop ... another great one... not my favourite style ... but one of the best in its class.

[i] [b] Bottle that was brought over in a case along with our beer order for Merton Beer Festival, thanks to Marc Bartram [/i] [/b] I’m very chuffed with seeing Old Chimneys Good King Henry Special Reserve burst into the top 50 beers this week, but can I just say that Alan Thompson and Old Chimneys are certainly no ’one trick pony merchants’ This is a classy IPA, pours orangey amber in colour with white med’ fluffy head and tiny bubbles, hops and some citrus on the nose, but tastes lovely. Really quite subtle initially in taste, some fruitiness good hop presence and lovely bitterness, where this wins for me is that everything is done very subtley, this tastes to me like a well crafted and top notch British IPA, I loved it.