Cask (gravity) @ The 18th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2012, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear dark red brown colour with a average, frothy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, roasted, burnt, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120503]

Bottle from an Odd Bins near the Earl’s Court station. Pours light copper with a transient white head. Aroma has a hint of toffee with some light fruit. Med body. Flavor starts toffee and picks up coffee. At least that’s what my brain is coming up with. It’s bitter and the coffee seems to be turning into hop. It drinks really nicely, and it’s finishing bitter after the "toffee" washes away.

330ml bottle. Cloudy dark orangey golden to amber colour, some chunks floating around, with average, frothy to creamy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, white head. Cautious piney and herbal hop aroma. Taste is cautiously herbal hoppy, in the finish bitter, minimally soapy and with a sulphuric onion touch. Not so good.

Bottle from Oddbins London Bridge. Clear brown orange red beer with a thin beige head. Some spicy almost rye like aroma. Good malts good red fruit. The willamette hops are both fruity and peppery. Yes a pretty good malty beer with a decent whack of hops on the finish. I’d been waiting to have something from this brewery that I really enjoyed for some time and this seems to deliver a beer I like. Small touch of diacetyl on the aroma as it warms up or is that caramel? Anyway it works ok in this beer.

Bottled (from AbM). More or less very deep amber colour (close to back) with a mediumsized beige foamy head, that lasts for quite a while. Aroma is mild chocolate, some roasted notes as well as quite fruity and floral notes. Flavour is rather similar in a quite nice balance. For once a pleasant Black IPA, which doesn’t overdo any of the flavours, but instead making a nice and smooth combination.

Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW - London. Pours clear, yellow-gold with a fine, white foam head. Aroma holds a bit of ripe citrus, orange and tangerine, and mild pee. Light to medium swet flavor with some nice, juicy citrus hops, mango, light pine, some sugary pale malts, moderate bitterness. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Modestly resinous to finish, some citrusy sugars, hints of bready malts, light dry pine needles. Pretty solid little APA.

Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW, London. Pours clear gold with a fine, foamy white head. Sugary malts in the nose, some crunchy leaves. Medium sweet flavor, sweet and lightly dry bread, a but of lefy bitterness, toasty sugars. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Simple, sugary malt fijish, light toast, mellow leaves. Not terribly inspiring but drinkable.

330ml bottle of Stiff Upper Lip from Westholme Stores, Goring. Amber with a ring of white head; weakly citrus aroma; zingy flavour with some lime and lemon and a pleasant malty body; then a sustained bitter finish. Rather good.

33cl bottle, BB 30-10-2013. Poured hazy dark amber with a thick white head. Mango, orange, very fruity hoppy aroma, toffee in the back. Flavor has grapefruit, kiwi, pine and spicy notes. Very bitter hoppy finish with a lingering fruityness. Medium bodied. Great brew, refreshing and tasty. And only 5.6 abv. Well done!

Cask at the gothique 29/03/13. Orange amber no head. Neutral malt aroma some berry . Nutty caramel malt. Yeast bite some bitterness in the finish.