bottle at ashs.... copper... thin white lacing.. soft herbal fruit nose... Light caramel crystal toffee malts

Sample courtesy Grumbo. Small head with good duration. Color is dark brown. Aroma and taste are rich coconut, caramel, rum, roast malt, dried fruits and has a nice warming finish.

Sample courtesy of Grumbo. Thanks. Clear dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, roasted malt, caramel and coconut. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish with a little rum. 150921

Pours a clear straw gold colour with a small fine foamy white head. Aroma is straw and citrusy lemon. A moderately sweet taste, light bready malts and lemony flavours and citrus peel bitter finish.

Cask at the Great British Beer Festival 2016, day 2 - London. Pours clear golden-brown with a foamy off-white head. The nose holds dried berries and lightly toasted bread. Light to medium sweet flavour with some more berries, simple bready malts. Light bodied with fine carbonation, decent condition. Moderately sweet finish, more toasted bread and berries. Serviceable mild.

Cask at the Great British Beer Festival 2017, day one - London. Pours clear brown with a light, foamy off-white cap. The nose holds light chocolate, toasted coconut. Light to medium sweet flavour with some oily coconut, earth, chocolate. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes with OK balance, more oily coconut, cocoa, soft roast. Nice one on the whole.

Bottle bought at Vine Yard, Swanage. Fruity aroma with some coffee bitterness. Opaque chestnut brown. Thin frothy off-white head. Light-medium juicy berry sourness. Underlying creamy sweetness. Gains a politely low key coffee-liqourice bitterness as it warms up and this then dominates. Medium bodied. Average carbonation. Long slightly astringent finish. Decent characterful mild. BTW - this beer is named after a local Cerne Abbas blacksmith so not sure of a previeas rater has got confused whetheyey refer to Sabretooth Tiger Tom, whiever that was (I googled and found nought).

Cask at Egham. Aroma a combination of sweet citrus and sulphur. Slightly hazy bright gold. Bubbly white head. Sweet lemonade-esque citrus with a slightly dulled smokey edge at the end. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Flat carbonation. Astringent finish. An odd tasting citrusy pale. Not quite what I'd expect from the style.

Cask at New Milton Beer Festival. Aroma of coconut, chocolate (and less positively) sour milk. Dark with a red tint. Creamy beige head just clings to the glass. Sweet with a slightly sour edge from the rum. Reminds me of a Bounty bar. Only slightly off. Surprisingly light, creamy but thin. Flat carbonation. Long finish. It's nice enough other than this kinda curdled element which detracts from the overall experience. Although I've never been keen on rum.