50cl bottle from The Naked Grape, Alresford. Amber with a loose cream head and moderate carbonation; spicy aroma; soft and soapy in the mouth with some unpleasantly acidic fruit; and little in the way of a finish - just a sweet, and rather sickly, malty aftertaste.

Cask (Guide Dog, Southampton) - Dark brown in colour. Dried fruit, caramel and malt in the aroma. Fruity and slightly spicy taste with notes of dried fruit, marzipan and fruitcake.

500ml Bottle - Amber with a small head. Fruity and slightly metallic aroma with notes of honey, dried fruit and citrus. Biscuity and slightly grainy taste with notes of dried fruit, citrus and some syrup.

Cask @ Charles Dickens, Southwark SE1. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy citrus aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with hoppy citrus in the aftertaste.

Cask @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear medium amber colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, smoke - plastic notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110802]

Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours clear dark copper with no head. Caramel, grass and corn. Medium bodied. Dry end.

Cask@GBBF2011. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, wood, earth and some sweet spicy and resiny notes as well. Flavour is quite much the same with some slight toasted and nutty notes as well. Nice bitter.

From cask. Pours cloudy orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is toasted malty, light spiced and breadish. Fruity, mild citric and light sweet. Bitter and fruity into the finish. Ends medium dry.