Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Lord Moon of the Mall (JDW), Whitehall. Hazy amber with a dense cream head; fruity aroma with citrus orange; sweet grapefruit flavour and a grainy body; then a dry and fruity finish. Very drinkable.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Full flavoured treacle toffee ale, so much so it is like eating the very sweets it copies.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium to dark brown colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, chalk, dark malt. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, cigarette ash - ashtray. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110429]

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

5th October 2011
Liberty Bounds Spoons. Clear deep red - brown beer. Tidy tan head. Smooth semi dry palate. Moderate carbonation. Good toffee and indeed, treacle. Medium sweet. Dark chocolate underneath. Sublte red fruits. Quite well joined up, finishes smooth. Decent.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask@Pigs Ear Beer Festival 2011. Goldeny amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruity, wooden, nectary, earthy and mildly toasted notes. Flavour is fruity, nectary, wooden, caramelly and mildly peachy.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Cask-condtioned at Penderal’s Oak (JDW), Holborn October 2011. Near black with a slight, off-white head. Sweet, powdered milk chocolate, camp coffee and truffles., with a vaguely bitter finish. Too sweet for me.

3/12/2011. Cask at The Dove Street Inn Winter Beer Festival.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Cask handpull at Star Inn Huddersfield. Proper warming dark premium bitter with deep dark fruits and peppery hops like wot people dont make now as they only want to make golden ales. Proper syrupy rich fruits. This is what i want on a wild wet windy late november afternoon. It put me in a good mood which even the screaming kid couldnt kill. Tight sparkler and 4 days open taking its toll.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

[Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading] Chestnut-black with a large tan head and a slight fizz. Chocolate, caramel and vanilla throughout. Maybe a hint of liquorice too. A little roastiness prevents it from being too sweet and sticky. A decent pudding beer, but I don’t think you’d want to drink pints of the stuff! Nevertheless, I rather enjoyed it.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Cask at the Cornfield Garage (JDW), Eastbourne. Not sure I got the right beer here - it’s certainly a stout, but hte dominating flavour is vanilla rather than treacle. Anyway ... it’s a dark reddish chestnut with a tan head; vanilla aroma; dry vanilla flavour with perhaps a trace of weak treacle; the finish is rather thin and watery. I’m very disappointed overall, it certainly doesn’t do what it says on the pumpclip. Perhaps I’ll give it another chance somewhere else.