10th December 2014
Tasting at Leighton’s Flat. Light haze on this deep gold beer, small cream colour head. Palate is airy and semi dry with decent fine carbonation. Sweetish pale malts. Tangy fruits. Nuts! Hazelnuts and lesser walnuts more than chesnuts! Light dry finish. Nutty in both senses of the word!

Bottle at Leighton’s. It pours clear amber-brown with a small white head. The nose is soft, juicy, earth, toffee, candied peel and bread. The taste is toasty, wood, straw, toast, nut, orange peel, dried fruits, spice, candy, lemonade and some acidity with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Interesting and pretty enjoyable.

Bottle shared in London. Pours clear amber with a creamy off-white head. The nose has lots of burnt peanut shells, some dry bread. Light to medium sweet flavor with grainy toast, more nuts, dried berries, peanuts, herbs. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Nicely balanced on the finish, some dried fruits, raisins, bread, further nuts. Pretty impressive, really.

Bottle shared at Leightons pre Christmas tasting. Light amber/ reddy coloured pour with a lasting halo of off white head. Aroma is spicy tobacco, earthy twigs, Bit of powdered choc on the nose. Flavour is strange, perfume, tobacco, spicy, tired hops, little spicy. Palate is medium crisp with highish carbonation. Lingering weird berry fruit.

330ml bottle. Barely clear golden colour with average, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Minimally strawy aroma, notes of gooseberry, green, unripe fruit, honeydew melon. Taste is moderately bitter hoppy, minimally strawy, husky, some gooseberry, minimally sweet biscuity malty basis. Nothing to pollute memory with.

Imported from my RateBeer account as A Head in a Hat Tommy Fighting Fit IPA (by Florence Brew House):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5

22/XI/14 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle from a trade @ Hannah's place - BB: 17/XII/14 (2014-1401) Thanks to Jon for the trade!

Clear pale orange to blond beer, big creamy head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass Aroma: very sweet, sugary, lots of almonds, hay, cow fodder. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet, very unpleasant bitterness, malty, grains. Aftertaste: bit sugary, marzipan touch, pretty bitter, malty, bit sourish. Meh.

Cask at the brewpub. Clear golden coloured pour with a sticky loose white head. Aroma is nice lively floral citrus with some grainy wheat. Flavour is grainy malt, tangy citrus, orange peel, assertive slightly rough bitterness. Palate is medium dry, fairly light, moderate carbonation. Decent enough bit rough round the edges.

Bottled 330ml (ABM, BB 09/2015)
Nutty brown color, tiny head. Nutty, woody, chocolate aroma. Light to medium-bodied. Watery for this ABV. Simple chestnutty-chocolate flavor. Kind of dead flavor. Light harsh bitterness.

Tried at the Nottingham Beer Festival 14. Pale hazy amber colour with a white head. Hoppy, caramel and malts. --- Beer merged from original tick of A Head in a Hat Titfer on 10 Oct 2014 at 07:21 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: Tried at the Nottingham Beer Festival 14. Pale hazy amber colour with a white head. Hoppy, caramel and malts.

Gravity dispense at the LBA bash, Le Gothique, 24/07/14. Hazed orange yellow with moderate off white spotting. Nose is earthy, citric peel, must, brown bread, spice. Taste comprises lemon peel, bitter citric notes, musty. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, semi drying close. So so GB.