330ml can from the brewery. Pours a deep amber with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of flora, citrus, light tropical fruits, nuts, hops & malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish.

Cask ale, half pint at Cotswold Arms. Clear amber-dark reddish body, tiny white head, scattered lacing. Quite inviting smell of dried fruits and earthy malts. Rather similar taste of dried fruits, including prunes, and mid-sweet malts. Bittersweet end, lightly roasted. Medium bodied. Pretty good. (Burford, Cotswold 26.04.2025).

Cask ale, half pint at Cotswold Arms. Clear chestnut coloured body, bubbles on the surface, fragile lacing. Modest smell of herbal hops and grain. Ripe lemon to the taste character added by hints of biscuits. Drying close. Easy going. (Burford, Cotsworld 26.04.2025).

[Cask at the Greyfriar, Reading.] A pale chestnut pour with a tight cream head; aroma of purple fruit and malts; smooth in the mouth with a malty body, some prunes and raisins; then a tangy fruity sourness and a dry finish with some caramel. Very tasty.

Half pint from the cask at the brewery. Pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, fruits, toasted grain & citrus. Moderate body. Light bitter finish.

Half pint from the cask at the Nags Head, Abingdon. Pours amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of flora, honey, caramel, treacle, fruits & malt. Medium body. Dry moderate bitter finish

Half pint from the cask at the Cotswold Arms, Burford. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of grapefruit, lemon, grain & hops. Moderate body. Crisp & slightly dry light bitter finish.

Bottle from my brother for Xmas. Clear mid brown colour thin beige head. Malty ale yeast fruit aroma. Malty in the mouth. Some pepper hop finish. Hedgerow fruit and leaves. As a best bitter it's the kind of bitter I love. I love the taste of the malt. I like the hedgerow fruit the pepper hops. I bet this is great on cask. Must seek that out.

Bottle from Melbicks Garden Centre, Coleshill. Clear light amber with small consistent white top, decent lacing. Aroma of sweet malts. grain, touch of marmalade, floral to herbal note. Taste of toasted malt, light diacetyl butter note but light enough to add to flavour rather than detract, some citrus. My issue is the finish has light herbal and spice notes and light bitterness - lacks an oomph for want of a better word even for a gold. Good body and smoothness for the strength though. OK.

500ml bottle from Connolly's Wine Merchants, online. Clear dark gold, small white head, some retention. Aroma of malts, straw and pear. Taste has a nice fruitiness to it with notes of pear, melon, citrus zest, malts, some biscuit. Light bodied, dry and bitter finish. Its a good gold.