Bottle from Kew Gardens shop. Orange/dark gold, flat. Orange peel, dried grass, white pepper. Bittersweet taste with a fair bit of orange. I'm not getting so much of the Earl Grey. Tastes quite nice but the hop combination in the finish is pretty messy. I want to like this more than I do.

Cask at craft beer co clerkenwell. Pours clear golden, nose is hay, lemon, floral, taste is similar, quite sweet. --- Beer merged from original tick of Join The Kew on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:44 - Score: 6

Cask gravity at the Pig's ear beer festival 05/12/2017. An opaque black oily pour with lasting loose tan head. Aroma is nutty twiggy malts, earthy roast, some dried fruit. Flavour is composed of under attenuated sweet wort, earthy roastm cakey malts, bread and liquorice. Palate is oily, flabby, medium sweet, lowish carboantion.

Sample@GBBF2018, London, with the Malmö crew - golden coloured pour with a white head. Citrus fruity hoppy and malty, satsuma, lemon, straw, pale malty support, medium body, some grassy and floral nuances, hoppy bitter finish.

330ml bottle [5.9% abv]. Cloudy, amber colour with average, frothy to macropore, slowly osteoporosing, minimally lacing, white head. Fruity hoppy aroma, notes of orchard fruit, apricot, melon, orange, caramelmalty background. Taste is bitter and slightly fruity hoppy, sugary caramel malty basis, hints of orange, melon, a touch of apricot and peach. Not so bad.

330ml bottle. Cloudy, brass colour with average to huge, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Sweet-ish, fruity, hoppy aroma, notes of lychee, hints of peach, blackcurrant, blueberry, a touch of seabuckthorn, biscuity malty background. Taste is bitter hoppy, mineral, minimally papery and grassy, hints of weed and silage, cautious fruity middle layer with a touch of lychee, blueberry and blackcurrant; earthy, grassy finish with hint sof silage.

330ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, pale, brass colour with huge, macropore, collapsing, white head. Fruity, grassy and slightly floral, hoppy aroma, minimally sugary malty background with a touch of grape sugar. Taste is initially dry, fruity and minimally floral hoppy. later minimally fusty grassy with hints of silage and weed.