7-4-7-4-14 Can, five months after canning. Pours slightly hazy pale yellow, with a creamy head. Aroma is smoked malts with bread crust, hay and honey, as well as zesty hops with herbs and grassy notes. Full body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is malts with bread, toffee, heather and notes of smoke, as well as grassy hops with herbal notes and leafy minerals.

Keg @ Dukes, Halifax. Hazy golden with a glow. Crisp, mostly hoppy brew with hints of citrus fruitiness, alongside some piney notes.

Can from Northumbrian Gifts. Pours hazy yellow gold with a thin white head. Aromas of white grape and white bread. Taste is white grape, banana and light spice. Bready sweet finish.

Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - cloudy yellow to orange. Creamy white head. Nose - orange, banana and an edge of breadiness. Taste - big banana, creamy toffee and some citrus again. Palate - creamy body, rich and textured with just enough zest on the finish. Overall - lovely stuff.

Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - cloudy to opaque orange. Thin white head. Nose - orange, dank and bready. Taste - orange and bready again. Palate - light bodied, decent body and zesty finish. Overall - this is very much in the style of a table beer.

Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - cloudy yellow with a snow white neatly proportioned head. Nose - light elderflower and citrus zest. Taste - lemon, light elderflower and generally dank. Palate - light bodied, very refreshing. Overall - good. I'm getting as much citrus as elderflower, interestingly.

On tap at Christian Firtal Pale Ale Festival. Golden with a lasting white head. Fruity aroma with citrus and peach. Sweetish malty flavour with plenty of fruit.

6th May 2023
Can. A light haze on this gold beer, short lived white head. Palate is light, mildy dry and has a good fine minerally crispness. Smooth and slightly malts, a nice Czech bready character. Tango hops eh Tony? New to me I think but they go very well in this lager. Quite a complex fruit character if not overtly forward. Soft white orchard fruits and a touch of lemon into a hard to pull-apart soft generic fruitiness. Whisper of candy fruits on the crisp finish. Nice lager and nicely hopped, on the sweet side for a lager but still very much a lager and a very drinkable one.

'Export' (in this case meaning pale lager slightly above standard strength) by these progressive craft brewers in Scotland, thanks Meeki for sharing at Tilquin English Beer Festival. Snow white, moussy, opening head, a bit less ‘firm’ than expected from an artisanal Pilsener, over a misty pale straw blonde robe with grassy tinge. Aroma of raw green cereals, unripe banana, freshly mown lawn, dry cane, field flowers, old lemon zest, white bread. Crisp onset, some green banana and pear but generally neutral, fizzy carb with smooth cereally pale maltiness in the middle, gradually bittered by zesty, grassy, citric hops, a bit lime peel-, unripe green pear- and lemonbalm-like, altogether remaining quite mild. Very crisp strongish lager, dry-hopped in a subtle, non-IPL-like way – in a sense reminiscent of the legendary Victory Prima Pils from the other side of the Atlantic, more so than of the German Dortmunder exports. In any case very decent whatever the substyle!

Donzoko in Scotland presenting this cold IPA, one of the latest new IPA fads, making them as clean as possible to that the hops can shine as purely as possible, like in IPL; apparently the Donzoko crew even uses lager yeast, in effect making this beer indistinguishable from beers explicitly intended as IPLs. At Tilquin English Beer Festival, thanks Meeki for sharing. Snow white, moussy, membrane-lacing, stable head, misty straw blonde robe with vague greenish tinge. Aroma of lime zest, lemongrass, green mango, maracuja, pomelo, white bread, freshly cut canary-grass shoots. Dry, clean onset, very low in esters if any at all, perhaps a very faint dash of unripe pear and green banana, fizzy carbonation with slick mouthfeel, bit oily; clean cereally pale malts under citrusy and grassy hoppiness with a touch of grapefruit and even vague ‘old school’ pine, ending long, dry and oily bitter. Colourful and very agreeable, fragrant hop aroma undisturbed by much else, as clean and clear as a mountain stream and immensely ‘drinkable’.