500ml bottle. Pours dark orange brown with a medium head. Aroma is bready, some dried fruits and boiled sweets. Taste has dried fruits to start and a bready medium bitter finish.

Bottle courtesy of Mum, cheers mum. Consumed at home Wednesday 27th December 2017 whilst making Mincemeat and Cheese Pies from The Pie book. Hazy amber/dark orange with a slim white head. A little fruity but bags of toffee and malt, sweet it's ok but doesn't do anything for me.A6 A4 T5 P3 Ov11 2.9

Clear golden, white head. Tangy aroma but not in a good way. Taste is a bit of citrus and some caramel. Inoffensive almost to the point of actually becoming offensive. Sherbety aftertaste. Meh.

Rating 3,900. 500ml bottle at 5%. Pours dark orange with a small head. Aroma is bready dried fruits. Taste has dried fruits throughout with a bready finish.

Bottle at home – originally from stall at Macclesfield Treacle Market The overwhelming impression of this is fruit ! It comes through strongly on the nose, where apple and raspberry predominate. Pours dark red brown, but clear with minimal head. Even more fruit in the taste, raspberries again, but also plums, blackberries and gooseberries. Curiously the finish reminds me very much of Wine Gums ! Not the kind of beer I normally go for, but very nice indeed.

50cl bottle from Longacres Garden Centre, Windlesham, at 4.5% ABV. A basic golden ale. Pale amber with a thin white head; biscuity malt aroma; stale biscuity taste; and a weak grassy bitterness.

50cl bottle from Longacres Garden Centre, Windlesham. A basic golden ale; pale amber with a tight white head; dusty aroma with some citrus; sweet biscuity malt body; some weak grassy hops; and a biscuity finish.

750ml bottle, branded as Staffordshire and at 4%. Pours dark gold with a large, frothy head. Aroma is honey and lemon washing up liquid. Taste has straw to start, bitter straw and honey finish and a honey aftertaste.

750ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a small head. Aroma is bready, dark fruits and molasses. Taste has dried fruits to start. Raisin and molasses finish. Unspiced fruitcake.