6.2

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

Bottle from Moonshire and Fuggles, ironbridge. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are light. Titus and slight bitter. Light bitter.

7.2

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

Bottle from Moonshire and Fuggles. Deep golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are malty and floral. Light sweet. Medium body.

6.6

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

Bottle from Moonshine and Fuggles, ironbridge. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are caramel, slight sweet. Light bitter finish. Medium body.

3.4

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 14

Bottle online from Hop Vault, Stourbridge. Pours clear pale orange gold with a slim white cap. Aroma: biscuit malts, caramel hints, straw, grass. Taste: light sweet & bitter, nice malt base, light fruity, bit floral. Light to medium body with light carbonation.

8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at Hops, Crewe. Was surprised to find I hadn’t rated this before – certainly drunk it on many occasions. Anyway, it pours golden yellow with a sizeable white head and good lacing. A fairly powerful sweetish aroma with a mix of floral and traditional hop and hints of honey and grass. In the mouth it is sweet and juicy / syrupy with plrnty of honey to start with. After a while you notice the hops and some bitterness, plus grains and hints of spices. This is rather nice and very drinkable. Not sure about it being a “premium bitter” though – though I don’t know what else to suggest. Reminds me a lot of Falstaff Smiling Asssassin.

6.4

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

Hand-pulled half-pint in the Plough, Shifnal on 23rd April 2023. Dark brown body with a full tanned coloured head. Chocolate front with a slight nutty side line, not as rich as I expected, but decent enough.

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