Hazy orange with a big head. Aroma of tropical hop. Flavour is soft pineapple hop, dusty mango, orange fruity light bitter finish.

330ml can at home. Pours hazy light yellow with a medium white head. Nose is light pineapple, tropical fruit, slight bit of citrus. Flavour is thin apricot, pineapple. Soft carbonation

Tap at the now defunct Mason & Co in the Olympic Park, London March 2017. Pours clear orange with a foamy white head. Aroma: yeast, floral, sage, lime pepper. Taste: citrus (lime), floral, pepper, sage, grassy light bitter finish. Medium body with frothy carbonation

Clean gold with a medium head. Aroma of rye hop. Flavour is grainy orange, rye and grain, light bitter background, kernel finish.

Black India ale - so a BIPA I assume - by Metalman, one of those new generation craft brewers in Ireland; can from Dranken Geers. Thick and frothy, cobweb-lacing, mousy, irregularly edged but dense and stable, pale yellowish-beige head on a clear, very dark chocolate brown beer, as good as black really, but still with warm, 'autumny' mahogany edge, misty and more brownish with sediment added. Indeed classic black IPA aroma of pine resin, fresh bayleaf, salmiak, grapefruit peel, cedar essential oil, fried black olives, near-burnt toast, roasted walnuts, bitter chocolate, spruce wood, burnt raisins, sweet dried fig note after adding the sediment. Crisp onset, minerally carbonation piercing through some dried-fruity notes but generally clean, restrained in sweetness with a dried porcini-like umami aspect, smooth and oily body; deeply toasted malt body, toasted brown bread crust, roasted walnuts and eventually coffeeish roasted bitterness mingled with a piney, peppery, leafy hop bitterness, outspokenly resinous and long-stretched, with a tonic water-like aspect in the end. Toasted bitter malts also linger on. Definitely a black IPA or Cascadian dark ale in all respects, as typical as it gets for this style; very piney and decidedly hop bitter balanced perfectly with a dark toasty-bitter malt body. BIPA has become old school meanwhile, perhaps, but I love it.

Bottle from Geers. Clear dark orange with a stable, small, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of mango, pink grapefruit, orange peel, pine resin, biscuit. Taste has bittersweet mango, orange, orange peel, biscuity & peanutty malt, turning quite bitter with pine resin & grapefruit peel in the resinous, bit spicy hoppy finish. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Pleasantly hoppy Red.

Can. Cloudy gold with a minimal head. Aroma of butter grain and malt. Flavour is biscuit grains, kernels in a sweet malt finish.

Can. Cloudy yellow with a thin head. Aroma of light lemon bread. Flavour is bready malt, dusty bitter, light citrus base, dry bitter finish.

Can. Pale hazy yellow with a short lived head. Aroma of grapefruit hop. Grainy bitter hop flavour, a little fruit, spicy finish.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2017, [ Great British Beer Festival 2017 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.[ As Metalman Equinox ].Clear light yellow colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity malt, wheat, spicy, light ginger - coriander ? Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, spicy, peppery, sweet malt, fruity malt, fruity malt, black pepper. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20170809] 5-2-6-3-13