6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

6.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

22/8/2025. Cask at the 33rd East Anglian Beer & Cider Festival, Bury St Edmunds.

6.3

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle as gift from my brother – drank at home. Phew ! What a gusher ! This takes the biscuit as the frothiest beer I’ve ever had. Once opened there was so much forth that it completely filled two pint glasses and was still gushing out of the bottle ! Finally settled down enough to see that it poured a cloudy ruby brown. Mainly malts in the aroma, but also bitter hops and some hints of nuts. In the mouth the bitterness of traditional hops is immediately apparent, with a creamy texture and flavour of autumn fruits. Some ginger and spice too after it has settled down. Not too bad after the initial mini-explosion !

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Guild Ale House, Preston, 16/05/2025.
Clear golden to light amber topped with a lasting off white cap.
Nose is mellow fruits, grass, melon, tangerine.
Taste comprises soft malts, orange zest, melon, papaya.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with a mellow bitter edge.
Okay cask pale.

6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

6.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask handpull at Cornubia Bristol. Clear gold colour lasting white head. Decent gold. Some bitterness proper bitterness. Some white stone fruit flavour. Decent. Likeable. Some sweetness.. OK

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at Colmore, Brum. Aroma is slightly citrusy, malty. Clear copper gold. Thin foamy translucent white head. Juicy citrus has a sharpness to it. Underlying damp malts. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft carbonation. Relatively abrupt finish. OK at best.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Gravity cask at Pig’s Ear 2024 - Hackney. Pours black-brown with a frothy, beige topping. Medium sweet flavour with notes of swee black coffee, toasted mats, a little burnt rubber, dried berries. Medium bodied with fine carbonation; decent condition. Dry finish, some ashy burnt malts, faintly tangy dark fruits/berries, scorched earth, more black coffee. Interesting beer, doesn’t quite nail it but it has some novelty.