8.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

31/12/2025. Can shared by Colin, cheers. Delicious.

7.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

31/12/2025. Can shared by Colin, cheers.

7.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Panda from Colin. Dark amber. Foamy translucent white head. Aroma has resin and spice with light citrus. Flavourwise it's similar. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-flat carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. Restrained Westie.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Single from Appalachian. Pint glass at home during Friday night beer chats. Didn't know till after, that this was a smoked hop, not malt.

Clear, thin, pale gold, good soapy head, slow to recede.
Slightly sharp & thin. Strongly smoked beechwood nose; sweet oats.
Beechwood, green veg smoke, more smoke than anticipated, slight plastic, herbal, dusty. Black pepper & subtle sweetness on the tail.

Okay.

8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5

16 oz can. Aroma has notes of coconut, vanilla, wood, bourbon, toffee, raisin, overripe plum. Pours murky root beer brown with a thin collapsing beige head. Taste is sweet and caramelly with lovely bourbon barrel notes. This is really good. Probably the first bourbon barrel aged doppelbock I’ve had so it gets brownie points for being unique, and even more for pulling it off and making such a tasty drink.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can at home, from HOTM online, 29/11/2025.
Moderately hazed marmalade orange topped with an off white cap that thins to a swirl ... not the most WC looker I've come across!
Nose is bitter orange, caramel malts, grass, grapefruit.
Taste comprises citric tinged straw, bitter orange, pine nibble, grass, mandarin.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close spiked with grassy come light juicy hop bitterness.
Okay IPA but not a typical WC offering for me.

7.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can picked up at Craft Metropolis Brixton at home in London 26/11/2025 New 🇺🇸 brewery ✅ citrusy fruity notes of lime and lemon, some grapefruit, grass and pine, light herbal, sweet malty backing with a balanced bitter edged hoppy finish.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home, from HOTM online, 22/11/2025.
Black with a fast collapsing khaki head.
Nose is treacle toffee, spice, dark malts, molasses, toasted brown sugars.
Taste comprises toffee, herb, mellow roast, ginger snap biscuit, brown sugar melt, molasses, dates, cinnamon.
Full bodied, oily feel, semi drying close with a light rising boost.
Fun impy that delivered on the Parkin promise ... if a touch overly sweet.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Hazy pale yellow with small head. Lemon, barley malt, and hay/grass aroma. Sweet-tangy lemon-lime, biscuit malt, and mildly bitter grass/fresh hay flavor. Good body. Excellent light beer.