Bottle. Hazy golden/amber body with a medium white head. Steady carbonation. Nice lacing. Aroma of orange and sweet pineapple. Flavour of dusty orange and caramel. Medium body with an oily mouthfeel. Soft fizz. The hops aren’t quite singing in this, but it’s still pretty nice.

Bottle. Clear amber body with a thin off-white head. Light lacing. Aroma of lightly roasted malt, honey and nuts. Flavour of earth, peppery spice, fig and a touch of marzipan. Thin body with a watery, slightly oily texture. Soft fizz. A beautifully balanced beer - lots of warming, roasted flavours.

Draft at Taps Beer Bar, Changkat, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a hazy reddish amber with a frothy white head and a little broken lace. The aroma is light raspberry, light mineral, grain. The flavour is light citrus sour with a dry yeast raspberry hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation.

West Coast IPA with thick, egg-white, lightly lacing, dense head, laying stable over a warm orange golden, clear beer. Lovely and fragrant IPA bouquet of orange flesh, tangerine, limoncello, mango, melting butter, juniper berries and pine resin, some sweet onion, biscuit, sweet white wine, vanilla-like tropical flowers, weak hint of chicken broth. Clean, crisp onset of well-positioned tropical fruit sweetness (mango, papaja, orange) already surrounded by a spicy hop bitterness from the start. Carbo is soft, mouthfeel lean and supple with an oily touch. Smooth, somewhat thin pale and caramelly malt sweetishness underlies, supporting the hop bitterness which grows from beginning to end and finishes the palate with deep bittering power, drying the throat but leaving through just enough of the malt sweetness, and, more than anything, with a wonderful retronasal hop fragrance, citrusy, piney, floral and spicy. Not very distinctive as such, but technically very well executed and very appetizing, an ideal apéritif.

Draft at Taps Beer Bar, Changkat, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a slightly hazy straw colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is big almond, marzipan. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a floral, woody, light spice, nutty, resin hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation. A bit of a shock to the system. Highly unusual, but plenty going on and it grew on me as it warmed a little.

355ml bottle. Hop-milky, orangey, deep golden to amber colour with small to average, fluffy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Piney, hoppy aroma pervades space in a very sluggish mode, caramel malty background, a sugary touch of candied orange zest. Taste is bitter and citrusy fruity hoppy, notes of lemon, a minimally chalky touch, caramel malty background with almond touch; lasting, biting bitterness.

Bouteille 355ml. Brune foncée, dorée au verre présentant un col blanc-cassé crémeux. Arôme est malté avec un bouquet dominant de grillé-chocolaté, grains, petit fruité noir en rétro avec un côté rappelant les ’saltines-crackers’. Plais est malté épais, caramel, chocolaté, pointe de grillé et un rappelle de mélanoide. Houblonné modéré ajoutant une touche d’amertume en fin de bouche, terreux ponctué par un regain de chocolat amer. Café reprend le dessus sur la fin et le tout conserve une impression de cendre.

Draft at Taps Beer Bar, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin broken white head and some broken lace. The aroma is yeast, citrus hop. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a fresh big citrus hop bitter, light spice palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.

Bottle @ weekly tasting shared by Joes. Opaque pitch black color, small beige head. Aroma is malts, very roasty, earthy, leather. Taste malts, a lot of roast, earthy, leather, lightly hops, a hint of smoke, bitter. Medium body and carbonation. Quite nice, but you’ve got to like the firm roastyness.