(Bottle, 0.5 l - BBE Feb 2012, courtesy of rosenbergh, 20120320) The beer poured pale amber and clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had malts, paper, caramel and herbalness. Palate was medium bodied with lowish carbonation. Flavours were herbalness, fruitiness, malts, caramell, bisquit and bitterness. Aftertaste was malty, sweet and bitter. I don’t know how this beer would have been like had it been fresher. Now, when past its best before date, it was quite odd brew.

50cl bottle from Westholme Stores, Goring. Amber with a thin cream head; the aroma is predominantly of stewed malts, but with perhaps a whiff of citrus; in the mouth it’s dry with caramel malt flavours and some spicy hops giving a dry and bitter finish. Promising, but over pasteurised - I’ll look out for the cask version.

Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, dry, fruity - tobacco. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110429]

bottle at home ... copper ... thin lacing ... soft sweet syrupy suger toffee malt nose ... soft sweet caramel ... some oddoily herbal ness ... not me

Bottle 500ml. @ [ Tasting by Fin & Loz ].Clear light dark red brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, cacao. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, chocolate, caramel, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111021]

Bottle 500ml. @ [ Tasting by Fin & Loz ].Clear light medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, wheat, ginger. Flavour is moderate sweet and light acidic with a average to long duration, citrus - lemon, ginger, wheat, soapy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111021]

Bottle at Fin & Loz’s tasting with Jan, Charlotte, Craig, Stella & kids consumed 21.10.11 Purchased at Millets Farm Shop, Frilford Heath, Nr Abingdon, Oxon summer 2011 Pours mid gold with a light bubbling for a head. Refreshing beer with a subtle rather than an ’in yer face’ gingeryness, tasting more like a little powdery ginger. Wheatiness is also apparent, some lemons, its ok but not really my thing I’m afraid. A6 A3 T5 P3 Ov11 2.8

Bottle at Fin & Loz’s tasting with Jan, Charlotte, Craig, Stella & kids consumed 21.10.11 This bottle purchased in Oddbins Summertown, Oxford sometime ago. Soft in the mouth with a surprising bitterness that I wasn’t expecting. Its quite malty too with some cocoa and then a little lemny dryness also apparent. The appearance is dark with a light haze, fruity, not too bad. A6 A3 T7 P3 Ov13 3.2