First bottle of many from the Beer52 subscription that my wonderful wife got for me. Pours a hazy pale amber with a middling white head. Lime and lemon up front then a piney bitterness and a dry finish. It’s maybe a little thin and the flavours are quite light for the style, but nevertheless it’s pleasant and refreshing- a good summer beer. Nice, a decent start to the subscription.

Keg at the craft and cleaver st Albans. Aroma is tangy floral citrus, pineapple, honeysuckle, mango, white bread. Flavour is raw pale grains, mango jam, pithy citrus, grainstore. Palate is grainsy, semi sweet and highish carbonation. Not bad.

Appearance- very dark brown, almost black, a beige foamy head which quickly disappears. Aroma- chocolate, fig, dark chocolate-covered raisin, caramel malt, fruitcake, Belgian yeast, toffee fudge, vanilla, marzipan. Smells lovely. Taste- fruitcake with coffee icing, sugary dark fruit, caramel biscuity malt, slightly burnt toast, sweet toasty malt finish, dark chocolate undertones throughout. Mouthfeel a little thin, but good overall.

Tap. Sheaf View, Sheffield. Clear gold. Thin, lasting, sticky, white head. Nose has peachy hop. Hint of pineapple and pink grapefruit. Background, sweet malts. Taste is pretty bitter, with only minimum sweetness. Clean mouthfeel. More bitterness on the finish. Tasty sessioner, albeit a bit one dimensionally bitter.

33cl bottle from Beer52.com. A murky straw coloured pour with an immediately fading white head, leaving a flat, unappealling looking beer; light sweet lemon aroma; sharper lemon taste, then mellowing slightly with some pine and grapefruit; the finish is long and bitter but very muddled. Worth a try, but not a beer I’d return to.

33cl bottle from Beer52.com. Pale amber with a ring of white head and lively carbonation; resinous aroma with some tropical fruit; immediate and lasting spicy bitterness with some tropical fruit. Very pleasant.

Bottle from Garrold cheers Gary; clear mahogany brown pour with a thin bubbly light tan head, aroma has dark fruits and molasses, taste dark fruits, light coffee, hint of chocolate.

330ml bottle bought at Tall Boys Beer Market in Leeds. Coal black body. Tan-coloured head quickly disappearing. Modest aroma of anise and dark fruits. Spiced dark fruity flavours mixed with liquorice. Malt bitter endnotes with a backdrop of yeasty fruitiness. Soft carbonated. Satisfying (student flat, campus, Leeds 07.07.2015).