07/10/2016. OLDE ENGLAND, 199 Kettering Road, NORTHAMPTON, Northamptonshire, England

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

18/3/2022. Cask at the Pomfret Arms, Northampton. Pours clear mahogany brown with a small bubbly/frothy off-white to beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, dark fruits, molasses, ash, liquorice, nut. Moderate sweetness, medium roasted bitterness. Medium body, oily, soft carbonation. Good.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Beer Garage. Appearance - deep and opaque black. Creamy tan head. Nose - chocolate, caramel and roast. Taste - roasty chocolate, a hint of smoke. And definitely caramel lurking again. Palate - medium bodied, creamy in texture, lightly roasty finish. Overall - yes, good.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Navigation Tavern Autumn Beer Festival 2016, Mirfield. Dark red-brown with creamy off-white head. Crisp enough but not that exciting.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Gravity cask at the London Drinker BF 2014. Pours deep brown with a frothy, khaki head. The nose gives off dark bread, light cocoa and dried, dark fruits. Light to medium sweet flavor with torched wood bitterness, baking cocoa, leathery dark fruits and earth. Medium bodied with fine carbonation; pretty good condition. Moderate sweetness to finish with dynamic dried dark fruit character, some ashy roast, bitter scorched earth, further bittersweet baking cocoa. Fairly tasty, some good depth.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Cask at the Milton Keynes Beer Festival 2013. Poured a dar ruby colour with a rocky tan head. Aroma was marmite saltiness, roast malt and coffee. Slight flavour of cheese with some dried fruit and brown sugar. Finishes with bitter burnt malts, earthy dryness and hints of Oxo... Not sure if all the salty flavours were deliberate.

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

bottle at home ... dark black ... bubbly tan head ... soft chocolate ... roast malt nose ... ligth chocolate bitterness ... wooody malts ... chocolate ... light bitterness ... little metalic ...ok

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

Bottled. Ambery brown colour with a mediumsized slightly off-white head. Aroma is fruits, some caramel malts, mild nutty and toasted notes as well. Flavour is dark dry fruits, some fruity and floral notes along with caramel malts, some raisins as well as grassy and herbal notes. Toasted finish.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle conditioned. A deep red beer with a thin tan head. The aroma has notes of caramel and malt as well as lighter notes of honey. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, nuts, and caramel, leading to a dry, bitter, and nutty finish.