Bottle from Greendale Farm. Golden brown, Medium head. Chewy malt flavours, hints of caramel, shy hints of nuts. Smooth palate. A delicious ale!

Bottle from Greendale Farm. Hazy Brown, large beige head. Good malty Base with raisins, walnut, caramel and roasted malts. Very nice resiny-citrusy hops. Delicious!

500ml Bottle: best before 28 July 2012, poured into a ’Batemans’ badged pint sleeve on 17 July 2012. Impressive looking brew: lovely amber body. The head a deep, lasting crown of tight bubbles. The nose is a hoppy mix of citrus fruits and piney nut aromas. The taste is also hops all the way with a dry bitterness from the first sip to the last: sadly as the beer warmed in the glass a metallic and sour presence showed itself. Might have been the fact it’s BBD was only 10 days away? Slightly over carbonated for my taste, just a bit too ’fizzy’. What began as a great tasting turned into a nasty mid-way through: I’ll not be having another of these.

Cask, handpump at The Black Prince, Woodstock, Oxon, Sunday 1st July 2012 Pours classic British bitter amber colour with a filmy trace of wispy white across the top. Fairly average bog standard bitter, middling bittrrness, low hoppiness, fruity and a tad underwhelming. A5 A3 T6 P3 Ov11 2.8

Cask at Dirty Dick’s, London. Pours clear, bright amber with a small, foamy white head. Some toasty caramel in the nose with lots of leaves, and some mild, semi-ripe fruits. Light sweet flavor with dirty-leafy bitterness, some dried fruits (citrusy) and some dry wood and bitter toast. Light to medium in body with fine carbonation. Decent condition. Medium bitter and fairly dry to finish; it needs a touch more sugar to a achieve a nice balance. A hint too bitter as it is, leafy and lightly grassy. Some toasty dough and semi-ripe fruits in the aftertaste. Not bad in the end.

(Cask at Market Porter, Southwark, London, 20 April 2012) Reddish amber colour with creamy, beige head. Malty nose with notes of toast, nuts, dried fruit and orange. Malty taste with nuts, caramel, orange and some dusty hops in the finish. Medium body, with a certain malt sweetness. Quite nice.

23rd July 2009
Clear amber beer. Low carbonation. Reasonably well behaved malt and hops. malt just having an edge in the dominance. A little dry hop spice in the finish, vague orange. Nowt wrong with this but being guilty of English blandness. Boring.

19th July 2009
Hazy amber brown beer. Fresh crispish semi dry palate. Low carbonation. Well balanced malt and hop. The malt is slightly nutty. Hops lend bitterness to the dry finish but not much else. Like a million other English bitters.

19th July 2009
Hazy amber - brown beer. Crispy semi dry palate. Low carbonation though. Medium malt, a little nutty. Trace of banana. Tangy but watery orange hop provides a little balance. A little less dry and a little more carbonation would be good.

Cask @ The Green Man, JDW, Bank EC2. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish withweak hoppy hints.