Cask (handpump) @ George Inn, Eccleshall ST21, UK. Clear medium amber color with a average, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, light hoppy, toffee, butter, licorice. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (150108)

Cask handpull at Ye Cracke, Liverpool. Chestnut colour with thin beige head. Premium bitter, some of that Slater’s richness, caramel. Pretty basic, some dry malt and caramel. Not much hop present. Some malty syrupy fruit. Not great.

Medium offwhite lasting head is frothy on top and settles slowly into a creamy head sharply delineated from the chestnut brown body. Resiny roasty malty aroma, very faint. Soft sweetish roasty caramel taste, slightly stale and musty. Soft, smooth, mild mouthfeel. Very faint and mild. Dryish aftertaste same as initial taste. A bit mild, stale, and boring. (1pt cask at the Wenlock Arms. I asked for a half pint, but what the hell.)