Bottle from Beers of Europe. Appearance - deep copper with a generous fluffy white head. Nose - toffee and metallic, though that could possibly be a dry herb note. Taste - toffee, brown bread. Light plant stalk and biscuit bitterness on the finish. Palate - medium bodied, crunchy and dry through the finish. Overall - the nose is not as good as the taste.

Tap @ Guildford Arms, Edinburgh. Murky red with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, raspberries and fruity. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 160419

Cask @ Guildford Arms, Edinburgh. Clear dark golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish. 160419

Handpull cask at the Parcel Yard, Leicester. Dark gold bordering on light brown, with a small foamy white head and lots of lacing. Floral scent, some tropical fruit drink, fruit tea, the slightest medicinal whiff. Tastes quite good actually: sweet with notes of mango, caramel, iced tea tannins. In good condition so the light body is buoyed up qith some natural carbonation. A bit artificial but pretty good all in all.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2017, [ Great British Beer Festival 2017 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.[ As Black Sheep Monty Python's Holy Grail ].Clear medium orange yellow colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity malt, apple. Flavor is light moderate sweet with a average duration, fruity malt, apple, sweet malt, pale malt - toasted. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20170809] 5-3-5-3-10

Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading. Black with a negligible head. Rich cocoa whiff, Good deep rich roastiness up front with black coffee to the fore. Marmalade and plain chocolate come through. Nice full texture and a good balance of sweetness and roast. Good stout, does what it says on the tin but without the fake sweet flavours that I often associate with flavoured stouts. Good effort for a brewery that I'm not normally a fan of.

Cask @ West Riding Rooms, Dewsbury. Clear blonde with a thick creamy head. Has a clean tasting hoppiness with a mild candy-sweet tropical fruitiness.

On cask at the Standing Order. Appearance - opaque black and generally ink like. Nose - nougat and there's a a dried orange thing. Taste - nuts, light chocolate and nougat. Orange hanging around at the back. Palate - crunchy and medium bodied. Dry crunchy finish. Overall - good malt bill here. It grew on me if a bit gnarly at first.

Cask at the Standing Order. Amber (?) with no head. Aromas of faint chocolate and citrus. Taste is more of the same. Thin finish.