Cask at Smithfield, Derby. Pours a murky golden yellow with a small scummy white head, but good lacing. Has an aroma of yeast mixed with citrus. The mouth is dominated by floral hops, but with several quite contradictory fruit flavours (varying over time), apricot, blackcurrant, peach and pineapple for starters. Not my kind of beer at all – I needed to drink a Bass afterwards to get rid of the taste !

This was my 3000th rate, but due to timing and a complete lapse of memory I completely failed to get anything decent to celebrate. Anyway, this can was from Morrison's. It pours a murky amber with a cream-coloured head. It smells sickly sweet and tastes not like a doughnut, but instead exactly like one of those iced finger buns you get in a bakers shop. You know - the ones with icing that tastes of fake pinkness. Sadly I'm really not a fan of iced finger buns or artificial flavourings.There's some fake raspberry syrup in there too, followed by a lot of creamy vanilla which was the one bit that I did like. It retains very little beer character, but there is just enough there to remind you that pale ales really don't go very well with iced finger buns at all. Fair play to the brewer on getting a pale ale to taste exactly like a cake. However, for me this really didn't work at all, although I did like the growing sweet vanilla creaminess in the finish which was just enough of a positive to keep me drinking to the bottom of the glass. Pretty disappointing for my 3000th though.