A bit of a confusing beer for me. I can't quite nail it down. In the aroma, I get cinnamon, ginger bread, cola and vanilla. Although on one level I get a vanilla biscoff, I also get vanilla Coke. It does have a big creamy mouthfeel and I certainly give them A for effort but it doesn't quite work for me.

Who knows what an XPA is - this one turns out to be lower in alcohol and paler in colour. Can. Very pale gold with a cm of white head. Mild fruity aroma with mandarin, mango, some peach, crackers. Pops a lot more upon a taste with fruit and crackers then firm and peppery bitterness. A good dustcutter.

Pours dark amber, large fading head.Nose shows apricot, pine, caramel, resinous hops.Flavours include more pine, resinous hops, caramel.

Pours deep mauve with a large lasting slightly pink head.Nose shows shows soft blackberry, raspberry, soft wheat, light lemon rind.Flavours include more blackberry, a very soft acidity, faint wheat and bready malt.Somewhat refreshing but not particularly interesting.

From a 375ml can on 2/3/2023. Pours a slightly opaque reddy amber with very little head. Smells of stewed and dried with some slightly odd herbal notes. The flavours are quite bold
- stewed and dried fruit, some caramel malt, rye and nuts, with a slightly strange medicinal bitterness and a touch of booze. Syrupy mouthfeel with modest carbonation. A strange beer - by no means a disaster but ultimately doesn’t quite come together.

Can. Pale gold, a small island of white bubbles. 3- Aroma of mango, boot polish, old lemons. Only slightly tart but quite sweet with over-ripe fruit, citrus that's presumably yuzu rather than old lemon. No particular finish. Refreshing but lacks shape.

Kind of a weird IPA. Starts with some nice pine, mandarin and bread aromas, but in the mouth there's this thin strip of lemon and stone fruit that goes down the middle of the tongue and leaves the sides bare. Just a strange one to get a bead on.

Can. Not far off clear amber with an inch of white head that fades fairly fast. Aroma of pine, breadcrust, ripe mango. Sweet with tropical fruit quickly swept away by a piney but modestly bitter end. Pretty good but a bit pedestrian.

Can. Cloudy orange with a frothy cm of of white head. Aroma of passionfruit, Australian pineapple, under-ripe mango, crackers. The hint from the aroma that it was tropical but not sweet is right - it's dryish with quite punchy fruit - some rindy citrus too - before a moderate finish that's enough to make it brisk. Good quaffer.

Can. Started at 10C which was too cold. Somewhat murky brown with a beige cap. Aroma of spiced stewed fruit, strong bread, brandy, some citrus. A little more than medium bodied. Moderately sweet, a fair bit of overt alcohol. Less stewed fruit and more hop than suggested by the aroma with zesty and spicy notes as well as pretty firm bitterness. Not bad, but not a gun.