Bottle. Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hop, caramel. Flavour is sweet, fruit, malt, hop, caramel, apple, alcohol. Ordinary beer.

Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hop, caramel. Flavour is sweet, fruit, malt, caramel, hop, grass. Medium body. OK/Nice beer.

Bottle 500ml.Clear medium to dark yellow colour with a small to average, open and fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, fruity, old hops. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, caramel, malty, feels a bit lazy and flat and not crisp. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130629]

Small offwhite head. Clear brown body. Earthy caramelly aroma with sugary mealy notes. Dry-sweet earthy buttery caramel taste with strawy herbal notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft, smooth mouthfeel. Dryish raisiny caramelly earthy aftertaste with mealy notes. Nice and highly drinkable. (0.33l bottle shared by KnutAl.)

Bottle 500ml.Clear medium yellow amber - orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, nutty notes, spicy notes. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet with a average to long duration, sweet malt, spicy, sugary malt. Body is medium, texture is oily and light sticky, carbonation is soft. [20130629]

Bottle 500ml.Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, nutty, dusty malt, toffee. Flavour is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average duration, malt bitter, dusty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130405]

Bottle at home in London. Pours clear gold, lightly effervescent with a fine, creamy white head. Nose has some doughy white bread. Light to medium sweet flavor with lots of doughy pale malts, some straw, cereal, dry lemon. Light bodied with fins carbonation. Simple doughy malt finish, lightly astringent, white bread, some lemon merengue.

Two tasting cups while on the RB Black Country bus trip on 6th July 2013. Golden to copper look to it: white crown on top. Aroma was fruity with a citrus backbone, some semi-sweet maltiness in the mix also. The taste was also a mixed bag: fruity, floral hop notes vieing with caramel malt sweetness all giving way to a dry, bitter finish. More like a strong Bitter than an IPA to me.

Bottle split at Cotteridge on the Black Country Bus Bash, thanks initially to Amy from the brewery for this one - 06/07/13. Clear golden with a thin white head. Nose is fruits, hops, light sugar, toasty malt, light caramel. Taste comprises light hop notes, fruits, sugar, hint of caramel. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light bitterness in the finish. Ok stuff but not an IPA in the RB way of classifying, not sure where I’d put it but nowhere near enough hops for a typical IPA.