Bottle @ home thx to Benzai. Golden applejuice colour with a.minimal white head. Smells applejuice, malts, some wood. Tastes malty, watery, tad bit sour, dry, bitter in a not pleasant way. Thin body, soft carbo.

500ml bottle, best before Dec 2012: poured into a UK pint sleeve on 16 July 2012. Mid-golden body, clear and clean: good white blanket of foaming bubbles on top. More hops than malts: the nose and taste majoring on semi-citrus hop flavours. Bitter-sweet really in the mouth with the bitterness winning in every sip especially towards the end as the mouth dries. Did it ring my bell? Yes, one of the better hoppy brews out there (IMHO).

Cask. A dark amber beer with a thin buubly off-white head. The aroma has notes of caramel and fruit. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel, leading to a dry, alcoholic, and metallic finish.

2022 rating. 500mL bottle, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out bready malt, a little caramel, and some butterscotch. Flavour is dry and biscuity, with dry toasted bready malt and a hint of caramel. Pleasant mouthfeel, with a dry, English malt finish. Better than I remember from 11 years ago. 2011 rating. On tap, pours bronze. Aroma and flavour of biscuity malts, light toast and lightly bitter hops. Not too thrilling.

(Cask at Gallows Real Ale Festival 2011) The beer poured copper coloured and clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had sweetness, malts and hint of roastedness. Palate was medium bodied. Flavours were malts, yest, sweetness, hops, bitterness and something I really cannot describe but which wasn’t pleasant. Aftertaste had malts, yeast and bitterness. Not my thing.

Cask at the Southampton Arms, London on 2nd December 2010. Amber with thin light grey head. Grassy hop in-mouth and a hoppy aroma. Touches of biscuity malts then a dry bitter finish. Quite light and thinnish mouthfeel. Refreshing and easy drinking.

draught @ Coeur de Lion, Bath (08/2010). Golden, slightly cirtusy with a rather dry and tart character.

Golden bronze colour. The aroma is a bit fruity. The taste is toasty-caramel malt background, fruity yeast (apple, berry) and some earthy hop bitterness. Another winner from Abbey Ales.

Bright amber-brown. Rich caramel and breadcrust aroma. Chewy breadcrust character with soft dark sugars and maybe some light fruit. Nicely balanced autumnal character to this one.

Bottle. Golden/Bronze beer with a mild head. The aroma is toffee, bitter and hopped, and the flavour is bitter and mildly toffee and roasted. Overall a nice but fairly average beer.