14th July 2011
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Sold as ’Happy Fruit’. Hazy amber beer, no real head. Smooth dry palate. Dried fruits, mild hops. Touch of raspberry with some hard to pin down fruits underneath. A little grass. Dry finish. Ok.

Cask at GBBF, 2011. Gold pour with a white head. Caramel, malts and light citrus aromas. Vanilla and light spice flavour. Heavy malt finish.

Reddish-brown. Rich malts, sugar sticky with cinnamon and lots of clove. Very clovey on the palate, too, with cinnamon and maybe some fruits and lots of sticky malts.

Gravity cask at the Bree Louise, London. Pours cloudy, amber-gold with basically no head. Bit of ripe orange on the nose, some sugar. Sweet flavor, some ripe citrus, light yeast, bit of dough. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet, light warming finish, more overripe orange and some mild spice. Um, alright. The good British witbier remains ever elusive.

Gravity cask at the Bree Louise. Pours murky ruby with no head. Dark fruit nose, heavy prunes, grapes, raisins, cranberries. Very sweet flavor, lots of ripe fruit sugars, some caramel and toffee, bit of booze and dry leaves. Medium to full in body with soft carbonation. Sweet, light sticky finish, mild warmth, some alcohol present, more ripe fruit. Pretty good. (3.7)

Gravity cask at the Bree Louise - London (again). Pours clear russet with a filmy off-white cream head. Lots of ripe, tangy fruits in the nose, some toffee. Big sweet flavor with plenty of booze, semi-dark and ripe fruits, cherries, plums, raisins. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish, lightly warming, with toasted sugars, rich bread, ripe fruits, plums and cherries, mild tang, light booze, caramel. Lasting toasty sugars. Very decent stuff. OK balance. Pretty full character. (3.6)

Gravity cask at the Bree Louise, London. Pours foggy gold with a small film. Bit of wet straw on the nose. Light sweet flavor, hay, straw, some dough. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Mild dry finish, more straw, hay, wet, some sugar. Condition could be better, but not bad.

tap at bow ... golden amber ... light ginger ... light hop nose ...spicy chilli front ...soft hop ... bodys a bit thin ... long spicy linger ... ok but no excitment

Cask-conditioned at the Three Tuns, Bristol 22/07/2011. Deep amber with a slight off-white head. Yeast aroma with some banana fruit and hint of spice. Flavour had plenty of bubble gum, a touch of citrus, grainy edge and dryish finish. A bit strange, seemed to be heading in the direction of a German Hefeweizen without quite getting there.

Cask at Bishops Stortford Beer Festival 2010. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of lemons and hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and hops, leading to a bitter finish.