Bottle. Caramel malt and grapefruit peel aroma. Hazy amber with small head. Sweet orange caramel malt and moderately bitter lime peel/pine flavor. Medium body.

Bottle: Cloudy, brown/amber with a short beige head. Musty orange, caramel scent. Taste is orange-peel, herbal hops, resin... Straightforward bittering... Ok, but nothing outstanding....

25th January 2015
Opaque black - brown beer, tan head. Palate is airy and semi dry with mild fine carbonation. Smooth dark malts, malt cream. Bitter licorice starts to dominate. Trace of coffee. Smooth and bitter finish. Decent.

(Bottle, as "Crystal Bitter") Reddish amber colour, slightly hazy, with lasting rocky off-white head. Fruity, malty nose with notes of treacle toffee, apricot marmalade, orange peel, red-currant and caramel. Malty, fruity taste with caramel, toffee, red fruit and a balanced citric bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Gets a bit sweet after a while, but it’s tasty and quite well balanced. Quite nice.

On Tap clear chestnut brown with a small skin of a lasting head. Sturdy lacing, Light toasted malt aroma, and woody light toast malt flavors. A slightly bitter astringent brown ale. Im used to a more fresh hoppy bit in red’s. Still, not unpleasant.

Nice pour, great aroma, but goes downhill from there. Average maltiness, not a lot of warmth, decent overall. Much better winter ales to be found

(Bottle) Hazy amber colour with lasting, rocky, beige head, leaving traces of lacing. Malty, fruity nose with notes of dried apricots, orange marmalade, caramel, candy sugar, honey and pine needles. Malty, fruity taste with dried apricots, orange peel, pink grapefruit, caramel, bitter orange marmalade, pine needles and a generous citric/piney bitterness in the finish. More than medium body, with a slight sweetness. Well made and tasty IPA with a solid grapefruity bitterness and malt to back it up. Very nice.

Beautiful Amber brown color. Frothy white head. Big pine hoppy nose with big malt character. Definitely reminds me a bit of Celebration ale. Nice big malt backbone with agressive hoppiness with pine and chocolate poking through. Balqnced, a touch sweet, but very approachable. Decent hoppy finish.

Bottle shared during the IoW Jolly. Pours clear, deep gold, effervescent, with a tan cream head. Dank citrus in the aroma with some secondary notes of herbs and pine. Medium sweet flavor with grassy bitterness, oily pine, papaya, grapefruit and orange. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Moderately resinous to conclude, with orange, toasty pale malts and sticky pine. Good one.

On tap at the brewery. Pours clear orange-red with a medium pinkish white head with great retention. Aroma is cherries, grain, lacto, vinegar. Tastes like Mosh Pit soured with lacto, which is definitely a good thing. Has a metallic offnote. Not bad.