16th June 2017
Sun Inn beer festival, Kelvedon. Cask. Almost clear amber beer, no real head. Palate is light and dry and smooth, modest carbonation. Soft and sweetish malts. Reasonable hop fruits, kinda generic. Mild spicy bitterness before a dry finish. Some condition would have elevated this.

2nd June 2017
Colchester Beer Festival. Cask. Hazy gold beer, a few pale cream colour bubbles not forming a head. Palate is smooth and fairly dry, low carbonation. Bitterish orange peel hops. Some spicy bitterness. Light finish. Long bitter linger. Struggling with it’s own poor condition.

Cask (gravity) @ 31th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2014, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England. [ As Harwich Town Sint Niklaas (6.5%) ].Clear medium to dark brown - orange amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt - yeast, moderate yeasty, sweet yeast - candy yeast, vomit. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, sweet malt, caramel, candy yeast, tart fruit - berry, vinegar notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20141206]

Cask at the Alma Inn, Harwich. Poured a medium brown with a bubbly round head. The aroma ligt malt, some yeast. The flavour is moderate to light bitter with a yeasty, light grainy medicinal hop bitter palate. Light to moderate bodied with soft carbonation. Not at its best I feel.

6th July 2016
Chelmsford Summer Beer Fest. Cask. Almost clear amber beer, good bubbly pale cream colour head. Palate is light, mildly dry and has good fine carbonation. Nice condition. Thin tangy malts, no that sweet. Good tangy fruits, some orange peel and a little lemon tartness. Light finish. Okay bitter.

18th June 2016
Sun Inn Summer Beer Fest, Kelvedon. Cask. Bright clear amber beer, a few cream colour bubbles. Palate is smooth and has reasonable fine carbonation. Light malts, touch of caramel - toffee, touch of malt cream. Rich dried fruits and ripe fruits. Touch of candy fruits and red berries. Mild floral bitterness. Smooth semi dry finish. Rich and fruity.

Draft at Craft 100 Spring 2016 - Craft Beer Co. Clapham, London. Pours clear gold with a creamy, white head. The nose holds damp grains and old orange rinds. Light sweet flavour, very grainy, with light minerality, pine. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Moderately sweet on the finish, with hints of oily pine, more husky grains. Meh, not great.

(Cask at Craft Beer Clerkenwell, London, 22 April 2016) Amber colour with foamy, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with apricots, orange peel and earthy hops. Malty, fruity taste with notes of orange, apricots, canned fruit and a balanced earthy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a touch of sweetness. Well made pale ale, not straying too far from the average. Quite nice.

Gravity at Craft 100, 24/03/16. Rich golden amber with an off white head. Nose is sweet malt, grain, orange peel, a touch raw and earthy. Taste comprises more sweet malts, light pine, caramel, orange, straw. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with a light hoppy flicker. Mediocre for style.