(Cask at Wenlock Arms, London, 1 Aug) Colour is golden with almost no head. Nose is fruity with lots of grapefruit and some spicy hints of ginger and coriander seeds. Taste is fruity and hoppy with grapefruit and spices (ginger). Long hoppy, bitter finish. Very nice!

Best before Feb 2007 bottle from Duff, shared with SuIIy on 8/22/06.
Copious amounts of latté colored head, foamy and well-aerated, pile atop a deep brown, near-black body, with some blood-red highlights on the edges, when held to the light. Medium-high clarity, due, unfortunately, to the filtration and lack of bottle conditioning. Head recedes slowly to cover, leaving light lacing behind.
Clear, clean coffee nose, is full of chalky-smooth, dry, but not hard/bitter coffee notes. Light ashiness on the very end, with a hint of hops. Very dry, silky chocolate is dotted throughout, with hints of light vanilla and pale malt sugars. The coffee is strong, assertive, certainly at the front of the aroma, but not over-the-top in any way. You certainly must enjoy coffee to appreciate it. Clean, other than that, with little/no yeast apparency, no alcohol, perhaps just a dab of vinousness and/or dark fruits, as an afterthought.
Not as much coffee in the flavor, though it is still one of the main flavors. It allows room for more crunchy barley, nuttiness and more dry, lean, bitter roasted notes. Some acidity is present on the end, but there is also a pleasant amount of residual sugar to soften/mitigate things. Vinousness, though light, helps stretch the flavors out, on the finish, and coffee runs from start to end, smooth and lightly chocolatey (not sweet though). Minor hop notes can barely be perceived, yeast is extremely clean. Texture, not being bottle conditioned, is a bit problematic, as is bound to happen, but still being a very fresh bottle, it dosent loosen too severely on the end. But a rounder, firmer texture and tighter carbonation, would of course, work wonders.

(Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm) Colour is very dark brown, almost black with a pale brown frothy head. Nose is roasted with freshly ground coffee and hints of citrus. Taste is roasted with the same character of freshly ground black coffee. Dry, long, bitter finish. Medium body. Not really complex and hardly balanced, but great coffee character. If you like your coffee strong and black, go for it. If not, stay away.

(Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm) Colour is golden yellow with little head. Nose is fruity with hints of lemon and a spicy wheat character. Taste is fruity with notes of orange and lemon, starts sweet but turns drier in a finish with a hint of spices (coriander?). Light body (on the thin side, actually) and gentle taste. Refreshing.

[Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm] Clear pale golden. Lightly citric nose. Sweet and soft with plenty of coriander and some vanilla. Fresh ans lightly lemony. Low bitterness. A well made English wheat ale with a lot of character of it’s own.

Cask handpull at Wenlock Arms. Gold with thin white head. As Hophead is to JHB so this is to White Dwarf. Lovely hop aroma. US style hop plus bit of creamy grapefruit. Cereal in mouth. Citrus, cerealfinish. Lacks bite and sharpness and a bit flabby to be excellent.

Cask@Beer Hunters, Pori. Hazy golden colour with huge foamy/creamy head. Ginger in aroma along with sweet caramelly and flowery hops. Ginger, spices and flowery hops dominate the flavour, which also has some slight toffeeish notes. Quite a nice cask, full with flavour. Very spiced aftertaste.

(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Colour is amber, with little head. Nose is fruity, with citrus, some grapefruit, balanced dusty hoppiness and hints of spice and some smoke. Taste starts fruity, turns maltier with nutty notes and a balanced, rather dry finish. Not bad at all, but you might expect more bite from Dark Star.

Cask@Beer Hunters, Pori. A bit hazy pale copper brown, good head. Flowery hoppy nose. Soft palate in the start, ginger is evident there, like spices mixed with flowery hops. Long spicey-hoppy aftertaste. Basicly good Dark Star blond ale ruined with ginger :)

[Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm] Clear golden. Interestic gingery lemon aroma. Light-medium bodied with fairly soft mouthfeel. Evident citric lemon aroma with the ginger taking over towards the finish. By the finish it is burning with ginger, but I’d still count it as a refreshing and fairly balanced spiced ale.