Old rating from 26-08-16 - A 500ml bottle brought back from Lewis by a friend last year. Best before Sep 16. It pours a clear brown toffee colour with a thin white head that doesn't last long. The aroma is toasty, bitter-sweet with flora, light vanilla, toffee, fruit loaf, dried fruits & brown sugar. The taste is bitter-sweet, brown bread, earth, toasty, dried fruits, grainy & earth. Medium body and moderate carbonation. The finish is dry and malty with hints of caramel in a mild bitter finish.

Old rating from 23-08-16 - A 330ml bottle found on my trip through Cassel last summer to Belgium. 6.5 ABV. Pours a hazy golden blond colour with a white head. Aroma is strong of summer fruits & flowers and with almost a perfume, also hints of spices, grain and some sourness detectable. Taste has summer fruits as well as sage & rosemary, slightly sweet flowers, spices, grains & hints of sourness. Medium bodied, strong carbonation. Finish is full of hopped bitterness & sweet fruits.

Old rating from 15-08-16 - A 330ml bottle, pours a cloudy orange colour with a white head. Aromas of citrus and pineapple. Tastes of citrus, pineapple & grapefruit with quite a zesty kick along with pine & sweet malt. The finish has quite a citrus zest with strong bitterness with the reasonably high alcohol ABV well hidden.

Old rating from 14-08-16 - A 375ml bottle brought back from New York City. Pours a golden colour with a white head. Aromas of citrus, clove & yeast. Tastes of citrus, apple, banana, clove, light spice & sweet malt. Finish is sweet citrus malt with a hint of spice in a lightly bitter end.

Old rating 11-08-16 - A 250ml bottle brought back from Luxembourg by my wife. Pours a straw colour with a white head. Aromas of malts, grain & hay. Tastes of bread, malts, grains, mild hops, leading to a bready mildly bitter finish.

Old rating from 2010 - 330ml bottle from Beers Of Europe, 5.2ABV. Pours amber with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of corn, hay, flora, herbs, earth, grain & malt. Moderate body. Mildly bitter finish. Passably drinkable if nothing else

Old rating from 10-08-16 - A gift from a friend who found & brought it back from Thailand of all places. A 330ml bottle with a very simple but smart black & white printed label. Pours a hazy orange amber colour with thin quickly diminishing off-white head that leaves lacing. Aromas of malts, pine, caramel, orange, tea, tropical fruit, hops and citrus. Tastes of a crisp, bitter-sweet, piney resin, peach, caramel, orange peel, slight chewiness and some warming alcohol with a dry medium bitter finish. Medium body and fine carbonation.

Old rating from 07-08-16 - A 355ml bottle brought back from New York City a few months ago. Pours a cloudy yellow colour with finger-width white head with decent retention and leaves lacing. Aromas of wheat malt as well as pineapple, pine, lemon & hints of spice. Tastes has a medium texture, with many of the same flavours present and well as grapefruit & citrus. The finish is dry and hoppy with a nice medium bitterness.

Old rating from 06-08-16 - A 330ml bottle my wife brought back from Croatia for me. Pours a clear reddish brown with a two finger light tan head. Aromas of malt, caramel, roasted nuts, fruits & hops. Tastes is also malty with caramel, roasted nuts, red fruits & bread with a sweet malty caramel finish.

Old rating from 05-08-16 - A 330ml bottle brought back from Belgium last summer. Pours a clear copper colour with a medium white head which leaves lacing. Aromas of fruit, caramel, malt, yeast, alcohol and hints of spice. The taste is full and medium sweet, again with fruit including apples, caramel, malt, yeast as well as coriander and a hint of vanilla. The alcohol is fairly well hidden considering it 9.0 ABV.