Can. Pours a dark hazy gold colour with a tight white head, plenty of hops and tropical fruits in the aroma, the taste is medium bitterness with a dry bitter finish.

Handpull cask at the brewery taproom, Melton Mowbray. Aroma of burnt malt and burnt coffee. Aqeeter taste than I'd expected, more burnt malt and touches of blackberry and plum. Light, almost watery body, with a little bit of carbonation. Pretty damn decent but lacks the intensity I was hoping for.

Keg draught at the brewery taproom, Melton Mowbray. Mid-gold and mostly clear with a massive, massive beige head. Not much aroma. A little bit of citrus, floral notes, lemon balm. Taste is more present with a bittersweet character, some citrus, slightly herbal. Watery body with heavy carbonation. Not bad at all but I want a bit more character.

Handpull cask at the brewery tap.mid- to slightly dark gold and clear with an uneven ring of off-white head. Hay, toast, kumquat jam and a touch of candy sugar in the aroma. Sweet taste, fruity and bready, with a light bitterness down the line. Medium body with little to no carbonation. Okay.

Light, soft, citrus

Citrus, light, quaffable

keg at the brewery tap ...dark black ..small tan head ...soft sweet dusty chocolate roast malts nose ..dark dry soft chocolate roast malts ..feels another Guinness clone

330ml can via Beer52. Poured into an old Forbidden Fruit chalice at home on 14th September 2025. Clean and clear tawny brown, lightly tanned/off white crust. Roasted malts with a floral twist in the nose, woody like flavours, earthy and hints of chocolate as it warmed a little.

Belgian style witbier with a twist - namely the non-traditional addition of pink peppercorns - produced by a local English craft brewery in collaboration with the trappist brewery that gave us Tynt Meadow, though I could not find anywhere what exactly the latter participant's contribution was; in any case this is already their second collab, after a bitter (Quintus) that was brewed in the abbey. Can bought from a private collector, shared with tderoeck and Meeki. Firm but slowly opening, snow white, lacing head on a misty yellow blonde beer with grass-greenish tinge. Aroma immediately filled with pink peppercorns (or pepper in general - I was thinking crushed white peppercorns at first to be honest), coriander seed, dried lemon peel, flour, green pear, white bread, whiffs of grass and field flowers. Sweetish onset, touches of banana and pear, minerally carbonated with smooth, slick 'wheatiness', dimly sourish but hardly soapy in this case, balanced by white-bready barley malt and spiced emphatically by the pink peppercorns, blending in with the coriander seed and the dried citrus peel - aromatically overpowering them, sure, but not making the finish too peppery, at least not for me. Floral hops add a touch of bitterness, too, perhaps a bit more than is typical in a witbier, but matching well with the pink pepper, both adding body and fullness to the finish. Interesting and unexpected take on the old witbier formula.