Cask at the Ledger Building, Canary Wharf, 23/01/16. Clear golden blonde with a decent off white head. Nose is straw, bread, toasted grains, light citric infuse. Taste comprises bread dough, grains, biscuit, light fruit esters, straw, airy malts. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Decent enough condition just lacks any real flavour.

On tap at the Three Stags Bebington. Amber colour with an off white head. Aroma malty caramel and slight stale basement. Taste sweetish with a light bitterness.

Cask (handpump) @ Roebuck Inn (JDW), 9-11 St. James’s Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6FH. [ As Cotleigh Hip Hop Hooray ].Clear medium yellow - amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, fruity malt, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, sweet malt, biscuit malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20161012] 6-3-7-3-13

On tap at the Felix Holt JDW, Nuneaton. Golden colour with a thick white head and good lacing. Aroma slight over ripe fruit and damp sawdust. Taste light fruity and slight sweet. Light body.

Malty, slightly burnt aroma. Light beige creamy head sat on a dark brown still body. Hints of burnt malt with chocolate a sweeter back of dark sugar. Medium body, dry, slightly cloying. Decent enough.

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Clear amber brown colour, good creamy beige head, half-way lasting, good lacing. Aroma toasted malts, caramel, dark fruits, plums, some treacle, liquorice. Mild taste, light heavy to medium sweet and bitter, light tones of toasted malts, toffee, raisins. Malty sweetbitter aftertaste, bit earthy, light to medium body, watery to oily texture, soft carbonation. Overall a pleasant mild brown ale, not a strong ale.

Handpull cask at the Pilgrims Progress (JDW), Bedford. Dark brown with notes of mahogany. Smell of milk chocolate, some muted forest fruit, gentle malt. Taste is not so good: sweet but also medicinal and herbal with a note of watercress. Some stone fruits in the aftertaste with a hint of liquorice. Creamy mouthfeel. Messy but passable.

Pours a reddish brown colour with a small thin white head. Malty caramel and fruit aroma, a hint of boiled vegetable. Sweet caramel fudge flavour, some sweet spice and nuttiness with a medium bitter finish.

Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol October 2016. Deep gold in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. A malty beer, with a touch of citrus fruit and leafy hops, before some sweet, slightly bready, notes and a moderately bitter finish. Fine.