The Knott, Manchester. Pale lagery looks. Muted butter and odd sweet Strawberry Chewit and fern aroma. Rattle of overhead train, Tom waits rasping on the box, chlorophyll reinforcement. Sickly strange and medicinal with cherry, hay, and vanilla. Long sweet biscuit. Needs a bit of warming up. Dried apricot/hairy citrus. Not enough bite for me. Sweet and weird.

Cask (handpump) @ Marble Arch, Manchester M4, UK. Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, flowers, toffee, butter. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft - flat. (180108)

<i>A Mes rate: Cask at the Marble Arch Inn.</i><br />Nice gold colour with a good white head. Very grassy green hoppage in the nose with a slight sweetness from the malt. Straight forward malt and hop flavour. Slight tea, light tobacco notes and a nice creamy bitter finish. Beats Boddys for sure if you ask me.

[CASK: The Lass-O-Gowry, Manchester 18/02/07] A poor bitter and definatly doesn’t live up to its name. Manchester is a city of good ales and this is a most dissapointment! Don’t bother to try you will just be let down.