Bottle shared at Chris and Ruth’s pre-GBBF tasting 2015 - London. Best by 1999. Pours lightly hazy gold with a creamy white head. The nose suggests heavy oxidation, with nips of caramel and apricot. Light sweet flavor, dry, with tangy notes, some peach. Light bodied with average carbonation. Dry on the finish, papery, with mellow citrus. For the style and the age, it’s OK.

Bottle@Chris and Ruth’s Pre-GBBF 2015, London - amber pour with white head. Pale malty aroma and taste, slight grassy, light citrus, sourish and vague herbal hoppy, very subdued aroma and taste given the date, but not bad considering the age.

Bottle, BBF 1999 shared at ChrisOs pre-GBBF tasting. It pours clear Amber with a small white head - a good sign of life! It pours soft, sweet, toasty grain, cereal and some oxidisation. The taste is toasty, grainy, bitter - sweet, cereal,toffee, lemon / grapefruit rind and some age with a dry finish. Light - medium body and fine carbonation. Quite bizarre. I expected this old low - boost golde to be totally knackered. Yes it is aged, but the carbonation and body are still good. To confirm I did not get IBS from consuming this beer.

very old. Oxidation nose. Flavor is oxidized caramel, treacle, marshmallow. Decent body and carbonation after all those years! Still quite drinkable.

8th August 2015
Pre GBBF tasting as Chris and Ruth’s. Lightly hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and dry, decent fine carbonation. Paper and carboardy caramel from the oxidised and knackered malts. Something like dried fruits on the end. For a BBE 1999 beer, the body is in great shape - but the flavour is clear aged.

Bottle at present GBBF 2015. Clear amber colour lasting white head. I have had worse beers. Some oxidisation good carbonation though.

50 cl bottle, vintage. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is wineous, fruity amd toasted malty. Toasted malty, breadish and toasted. Mild bitter and toasted malty finish.

500ml bottle from Beers of Europe, bought because I’m a big fan of pumpclipparade, but despite the name, the label is tame. Pours hazy yellow gold, nice white head. Aromas of lemon yoghurt, which is odd. Taste has a weird yeasty note, some malt. Tangy finish. Not a bitter in the slightest. What does ’hand-brewed’ even mean?Are they drawing water by the individual bucket? Stirring the mash with their hands? Name me a beer that requires no human input, even if you just flick a switch it’s hand-brewed. Meaningless. Also appears to be brewed in Gloucester these days.

50cl bottle. Appearance - hazy golden with a nice fluffy head. Nose - lemon with a natural yoghurt primarily. Taste - stale malt, more yoghurt. Palate - light to medium bodied with a thin but tangy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - this falls somewhere between a pale ale and a wierdly unbalanced Belgian Ale.