Cask @ The Pembury Tavern, Hackney. Pours a dark amber/brown color with a small off-white head. Fruity malty chocolate aroma with some hints of dark fruit. Sweet malty flavor with some hints of caramel. Sweetish malty finish with some roasted hints leaving you with a bitter finish.

Cask @ The Pembury Tavern, Hackney. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Fruity malty aroma with some weak hints of dark fruit. Sweet fruity and malty flavor with some hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2007, London. Clear dark brown black color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, rasin, dry fruit, moderate to heavy licorice. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat.

(Cask at GBBF, London, 8 Aug 2007) Very dark brown colour with ruby notes, almost no head. Malty, sweet nose with dried fruit, raisins, prunes and dates. Malty taste with notes of dried fruit, raisins, prunes and chocolate. Slightly vinous, rather sweet. Full body. Very warming stuff.

(Cask at Wenlock Arms, London, 7 Aug 2007) Golden yellow colour with foamy white head. Fruity nose with distinct notes of lemon and grapefruit indicating the hop character. Fruity taste with lemon, grapefruit and generous amounts of citrussy hops in the resiny finish. Almost neo-american hop character in an English bitter with 4,3% abv! I could definitely do a session or two on this beer. Great stuff.

Cask at Peterborough Beer Fest. Golden colour. Hay and grapefruity hops sticks out in the nose. Sweet and medium bodied, buttery and fruity. Solidly malty with good bitterness.

Cask at Peterborough Beer Fest. Straw colour. Evidently grassy nose. Very dry with light buttery malm. A, well made, slimmed very drinkable session beer with a bitterish grassy finish.

Copper with a small white head. fruity aroma with port notes, and a hint of roast malt. Roast and dry flavour.

[i]Cask but bottled from the Penbury Tavern for me, ’very kindly may I add’ by Casey aka Doppelganger, Thanks [/i] Poured pretty much black there was only the tiniest rim of bubbles from my pouring on the surface. Aroma was roasty and with a streaky bitterness wafting through as well. The taste was initially a touch sour but this soon faded to reveal bitter chocolate, vanilla, even a rogue liquorice allsort was dancing across my tastebuds, as it warmed more chocolate and roasted bitterness coursed through the mouth. A great beer which despite being bottled and kept perfectly for a few weeks by Casey was still in remarkably good condition. [i] [b] Cask, gravity at Merton Winter Beer Festival Feb 08 [/i] [/b] Had this for the second time and probably somewhat fresher than last time. Poured black no head, less of an oily texture that the Old Chimneys, liqourice and a back of the mouth bitterness, quite drying also, some cold coffee, I really liked this again but the score remains the same [b] 4 [/b]