Classic bitter appearance- copper, clear, with a small foamy head. Aroma of caramel, grassy hops, bready malt hints. Taste is more of the same- vague hop bitterness, then fruitiness towards the finish. Solid, unspectacular.

Cask pint at the Audley (a Taylor Walker pub) in Mayfair, London. Dark copper color, low creamy head. Malts and toffee in the aroma, hints of caramel. Malty flavour but not too sweet, also toffee and fruity notes (blackcurrants) and earthy hops, a hint of cinnamon. Very nice.

Jan ’15. A 0.5 l bottle. It poured clear red body with a small, short living head. A bit metallic roasted caramel aroma. Lightly bitter, dry flavor, like a typical English macro bitter. Biscuit&caramel were more or less everything offered, lightly herbal, too. Medium bodied, but its simplicity gave away watery impression. Shorter finish. After some nice beers of the evening this was expectedly mediocre, even bad for a Christmas brew of any kind. Drinkable though.

Bottle. Pours clear dark reddish brown with medium white head. Aroma is intense malt, malt syrup, malt drops, biscuits, butter, butterscotch, grassy hops and faint hints of spruce. Taste of light to medium sweet, light bitter and faint acidic. Body is watery to light oily with soft carbonation. Finish is long and mostly sweet with lots of malty notes but also bread, biscuits, caramel, butterscotch, fudge, lemon, pale syrup and hints of ground coffee and cinnamon. Nice English ale with hints of Christmas.

Bottle from Tesco, pale Amber colour with a white head. Malty sweet aroma and taste. But a touch dull.

Cask at Brewmaster, Leicester Square, London. An amber/brown coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Malty, caramel, spice aroma. Tastes malty, caramel, spice.

Copper colour. Aroma is malty, caramel, with a delicate but nice hoppy finish. Light bitterness. Medium body, medium carbonation. Good one.

Bottle 500ml (K-Citymarket Puuvilla)
Deep amber color, small white head. Sweet caramel, candyish aroma with light fruity hops. Light-bodied. Fruity, even a bit berryish-candyish flavor, caramalt. Then English hops in the finish and aftertaste. Sweetish "Christmas" bitter.