Bottle from Arden Wines. Copper pour with a slim but stable ivory head. Sweet berry fruit aroma with cherry stone alcohol notes. Faint resiny hopsack if you really poke your nose in. Watery red apple, cherryish/almond flavour. Caramel, earth, toffee, dusty hop and butter cookie. Sounds more exciting than it is. Watery to the point of emptiness. Not their best.

Bottle (in NZ). Has the same caked sediment inside the next, a lively pour produces a large head that settles to a thick cream on top of a clear dark copper. Rich malty aroma, somewhat bready, with hints of floral hops. The palate seems somewhat unrefined - earthy and grainy, with a finish that is short and gravelly. A tart fruitiness in the otherwise bready malt flavour. A little disappointing after that aroma. I don’t know how much this has suffered from the trip over.

Bottle. Very clear with malts and citrus present. Very easy to drink and definitely an abovr average bitter.

Bottle conditioned, 500ml. Brown amber with full white head. For me this was a typically Welsh, malty beer with sweetish dark malts, a rounded fruitiness, easy drinking and smooth. It loses out a little because it doesn’t develop on, there is no finish nor hoppiness. A good beer but with flaws.