Cask, handpump at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks, 30.01.12 Pours chestnut brown with light beige head. Caramel on nose and in mouth, nutty flavours, smooth and uncomplicated, served at a good temperature, little roasty. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3

Cask, handpump at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks 5th Jan 2012 Pours as the description suggests and that is ruby brown. Malty and a little digestive biscuity but also fruity with a middling bitterness. This is very much in the mould of a Vale beer, sort of like a monthly special, its fine but not that exciting to be fair the style is probably not something that jumps out at me A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov13 3.2

Cask at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury. Clear golden. Doughy wort aroma. Sweet and light bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Hay and doughy malt, low-medium bitterness. Strangely worty.

Cask at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury. Pale amber. Caramel aroma. Sweet and somewhat floral with light-medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Some hay and ripe fruits. Mid-bitter finish.

Cask, handpump at The Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks, 05.12.11 Pours mid amber with a filmy/lacy white head. Good streaky bitterness throughout, really juicy fruitiness and lovely hops flying about Green Bullet and Northdown hops I understand, I guess that the Green Bullets are showing more here, very decent drop. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov15 3.7

Cask, gravity at Aylesbury Brewhouse, The Hop Pole, Aylesbury, Bucks Pours pale golden, with a light smattering of white bubbles. I understand that the hops used are Tettnang, so a hop that is German if my memory serves me correct and therefore more probably prevalent in a lager style beer I guess. However hops can be quite versatile and it seems to work pretty well here, providing a reasonably clean tasting, crisp beer. Aroma is quite simple, hard pushed to pick much out, but in the mouth the beer is clean tasting, with quite a dryness throughout in fact its a pretty decent effort for a 3.8% beer and I would happily sup a pint or two of this. Only had a smallish taster, but pleased with the first from this new brewery. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov14 3.5