Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Red-amber colour. MOderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate. Really nice brown Ale.

Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Red-amber colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bittter flavor. Alas butterscotch a little dominating. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.

Sample @ Torben Matthews smagning. Pours clear dark red with small white head. Aroma is yoghurt, dough, caramel, cream, toffee and perfume. Taste is bitter and light sweet. Body is watery with good carbonation. Finish is dry and bitter with notes of cream and toffee.

Clear dark amber with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, fruity and nutty. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 170412

Bottle @ Torben Mathews tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is brpwn. Aroma and taste are caramel, roast malt, nuts and hops.

Clear reddish brown with a lasting off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and moderate buttery. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. 170412

Bottle @ Torben Mathews tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark amber. Aroma and taste are caramel, butter, fruits, malt and hops.

Brown 500ml bottle, best before 10th Feb 2011, drank and reviewed 24th Jan 2011. The rear label claims it can be used as a light, thirst quenching alternative to a lager or you can liberate the complex flavours of an ale, depending on what you want, just serve it at different temps! I’m reviewing a cold one, so it should lean towards a lager! Poured into a straight sided UK pint sleeve. The beer in certainly on the blonde side, light amber more than a strawberry or golden blonde, but blonde it is. The thin white head became a wisp and collar very quickly, a pity. The initial smell was of a honey sweetness and treacle like malty molasses. That all sounds overly sweet, but wasn’t really sickly, just huge hints of those aromas. To be fair, the smell changed as the beer warmed, becoming less sweet and more fruity and Ale like. The smell sweetness turned semi-sweet with no hop feel what so ever, the malts being mild in flavour but giving the sweetness. I prefer sweeter beers, but I couldn’t take to this for some reason. Strange beer, not a huge disappointment, but not what I was expecting. It didn’t turn into an ’Complex Ale’ as it warmed in the glass either. A crossdresser of a beer, not in my eyes, just a beer that doesn’t know what it is!

Tall, brown 500ml bottle, best before 17th Mar 2011, drank and reviewed 26th Jan 2011. Poured into a UK pint sleeve. More dead leaf brown than red in body colour, the tanned coloured head fell away very swiftly to leave nothing apart from a thin half collar, not impressed with the look after 20 seconds of pouring! Malty smells, fruity too, we are talking about baked fruit biscuits here, without the sweetness. The taste is all malt, semi-sweet molasses and dried fruits (currents, dates and plums), not unpleasant, but not exciting. They claim to use amber, crystal and roasted malts, along with Goldings, Fuggles and Cascade Hops, sorry but they didn’t blend well in this brew. Slightly over carbonated for my tastebuds, almost fizzy in fact. Made me burp! OK more than good, the lose of the head so quickly killed the tasting for me, nothing stood out as different or interesting so it never really recovered from the initial bad vibes.