Cask at Smithfield, Derby. Pours a pale gold with minimal off-white headf. There’s some nuts in the aroma along with just a little hoppiness. In the mouth it is slightly sweet with floral hops to the fore, along with grains and oranges. A little spiciness follows eventually. Finish is slightly dry and bitter. Reasonable.

Cask at Bird in Hand, Stafford – as Woodcote SPA (4.2%). Pours chrome yellow with a small white head and good lacing. Floral hops and some hints of oranges in the aroma. In the mouth it is sweet with a light watery texture. Flavour is summer fruits and bread crusts with traces of malts. Eventually some hops start to show, and the finish is slightly bbitter. There’s not much body to this one, but what there is is decent. Definitely swiggable !

Cask at the Waggon & Horses, Stourbridge. Pours bright gold with a medium head. Aroma is grassy straw and butter. Taste has grassy straw with an eggy buttery bitter finish.

Gravity cask at Pigs Ear 2021 - Hackney. Pours clear honey-gold with a small, foamy white head. Lightly sweet, notes of pale bread, a little dough, straw, biscuits, low bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Decent balance to finish. Not bad.

Cask at the pigs ear beer festival 2021. A clear pale gold yellow straw coloured pour with a lasting loose white head. Aroma is nice fresh hop, pine, lemon rind, kiwi, bready hop, leafy hop. Palate is crisp, refreshing nice cask condition some hop. Flavour is composed of semi crisp, bready, resin,, grass, green liquorice. Nice.

Gravity cask at Pigs Ear 2021 - Hackney. Pours crystal clear yellow with a frothy, white head. Lovely drop this, moderate sweetness, clean straw, lemon, biscuits, nips of pine. Light bodied with fine carbonation; good condition. Balanced finish, fresh citrusy hops, mild rindy bitterness, a little straw and biscuity pale malts. Highly drinkable.

Proper micropub, no real bar and beer served on gravity from stillaged barrels, this one a decent fruity blond with a hint of hops.

Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at Leicester Beer festival, 11/3/2017. Near black in colour, with a thin, beige, head. Leafy hop, toasted malts and milk chocolate aroma. Flavour had more chocolate, some porridge oat sweetness and a hint of liquorice before a roasted malt finish. Enjoyable.