6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
[Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading.] An amber pour with a thin white head; fruity aroma; orchard fruit taste, with some pear and apple; then a dry finish with biscuity malts and a lingering spiciness. Pleasant, but nothing more.
Tried
from Cask
at
Hope Tap
on 23 Jul 2026
at 14:17
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 8
Half of gravity at the Hitchin Beer Festival. Marketed as XT and came through as a very pleasant bitter. Mind you, I was fairly well gone at this point so who knows how good this was.....
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Jun 2026
at 21:13
7/10
Cask at the Strugglers Inn, Lincoln. Deep amber colour with a white head, malty sweet fruity. light body.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Strugglers Inn
on 07 Nov 2025
at 14:17
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Slightly opaque amber. Aroma is fruity with a sweet caramel streak. Fruity with a resinous and quinine bitter streak. Underlying malts. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft fizzy carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jul 2025
at 05:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Gravity cask at the 34th Ealing Beer Festival 2025, day one, 09/07/2025.
Golden to light copper topped with an off white head that thins to a swirl.
Nose is orange zest, melon, grass, light breads, soft malts.
Taste comprises melon, papaya, tangerine, grass.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with mellow hop bitterness.
Okay easy cask affair.
Golden to light copper topped with an off white head that thins to a swirl.
Nose is orange zest, melon, grass, light breads, soft malts.
Taste comprises melon, papaya, tangerine, grass.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with mellow hop bitterness.
Okay easy cask affair.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2025
at 14:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Bird In Hand, Princess Risborough, 22/02/2025.
Black with a lasting khaki head ... a real looker of a beer.
Nose is dark malts, mellow roast, charr, cocoa powder, pipe tobacco.
Taste comprises dried fruit rinds, light spice, chocolate biscuit, roasted tones, faint smoke.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Solid flavoursome cask porter.
Black with a lasting khaki head ... a real looker of a beer.
Nose is dark malts, mellow roast, charr, cocoa powder, pipe tobacco.
Taste comprises dried fruit rinds, light spice, chocolate biscuit, roasted tones, faint smoke.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Solid flavoursome cask porter.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2025
at 17:08
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle from Lapworth Wines. Clear gold, small white head. Aroma of Citra hops comes through strong being citrusy, earthy and floral, background of biscuit malt. Its light yet oddly cloying, biscuity, citrus some zest. Moderate dry bitter finish. A bit twiggy. Its ok. Reading the below reviews it sounds like this is far superior on cask.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Yikes it's been a while since anyone has rated this one! 500ml bottle from Lapworth Wines. Clear gold pour with decent small white head. Aroma is biscuit, grass, citrus, grapefruit. Quite a zesty tangy tangerine flavour with a grassy bitterness. Dry finish almost astringent but offset by a late grapefruit refreshing note. It's fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask gravity at the Watford beer festival 2024. A mostly clear golden orange coloured pour with a lasting loose white head. Aroma is earthy grains, hay, straw, grassy hop, light spicy. Flavour is composed of crisp rustic grains, cereal, bark, dirty straw, spicy grassy hop. Firm hop bitterness. Palate is grains, semi drying finish,moderate carbonation. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2024
at 17:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Gravity cask at the 33rd Ealing Beer Festival, 12/07/24. New Bucks rate ... rare as rocking horse shit these days! Golden with an off white cap that thins to a swirl. Nose is pale malts, grass, tangerine, straw. Taste comprises orange peel, melon, soft breads, pale malts, herb. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with a modest bitter edge. Okay.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2024
at 06:53