Pale chestnut brown with a frothy / creamy off-white head and a soft malty aroma. Light bodied with a touch of creaminess, fruit malt with a hint of floral hop character.

The Grove, Shrewsbury

Nice one, lovely hop bouquet. Pic: a fantastic scotch egg

Pretty boring. The pub isn't as interesting as expected, either.

Misted chestnut brown with a moderate ivory-coloured head of decent retention. Toast & caramel, pleasant esters, dried fruits, British hop. Medium dry. Light plus ending bitterness. Balanced and rounded. Good.

Pint draft at The Phoenix pub in London, England. Pours a clear gold color with a small white head and good retention. Virtually no aroma. Pretty standard lager aroma with maybe a slight bitterness in the finish. Not as many caramel notes as your typical American ESB. It's "British cold" = not as cold as an American beer. Medium body and medium light carbonation. Low bitterness. OK, but underwhelming.

Scotch by Carlsberg-owned Scottish classic McEwan's, apparently specifically brewed (at least originally) as a competition entry, hence the - perhaps overconfident - name. Bottle from a mall in Aberdeen. Pale yellowish beige, dense and creamy, medium thick, membrane-lacing, slowly opening head on a clear deep and warm mahogany bronze robe with amber glow and fine strings of visible fizz. Aroma of caramel or even sticky toffee pudding, medlar, dried fig, lingonberry touch, clear added iron (hand test!), tea, chewing gum, wet tree leaves, dried banana, brown bread, walnut cake. Rounded, sweet onset with very light sourish tinge, quite actively carbonated (artificially) with subdued fruity notes of pear, medlar and fig; smooth caramel-malty middle, bread crust and very light nuttiness as well, even a brief and volatile nod at (powder) chocolate, but also the iron setting in at that point - alas. Toasty-bitter malt finish with mild herbal hoppiness in its trail, but consistently mellowed by dried dark fruit and toffee notes. Decent for a 'macro' wee heavy - way above the Gordon Scotch Ale still well-known in Belgium today, for example - but its most obvious flaws lie exactly in the fact that it is macro, being filtered, pasteurised and 'ironed'. Pour this into 'craft' form and you will have a beautiful example of the style.

I was disappointing with this I.P.A. The hop is really discreet, malty but there is a lack of feature, body. Copper color, 01.04.16

[50cl can from Home Bargains, Bracknell.] A hazy amber pour with a thick white head; sweet malty aroma; rather thin in the mouth with a jammy malt taste; then a light earthy bitterness. Over pasteurised, reminds me of most bottled "IPAs" from last century.