Cask ½ pint, Somerset CAMRA festival at Minehead. Pours dark amber with a bubbly head. Hoppy, malty aroma. Pleasantly warming palate and a very filling hoppy flavour. Quite good.

Bottled. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is bigtime fruits and flowery malts. Flavour is fruits and flowery hops. Mild notes of caramel malts, but hops own the show in this one.

Clear giolden with tiny white head. Hoppy aroma with pine and caramel notes. Sweet and hoppy flavor with notes of grapefruit, pine and caramel notes. Ends bitter. For once a UK beer with hops in it...

cask at blackfriars- at toms leaving. pours red brown, grey white head. nose is butterscotch, hops, dank, sorta muddy damp smelling, apple tart. tastes ultra bitter, with a sweet kick. citrus, citrus, rich toffee, really drinkable. sticky mouthfeel, the only beer that i have woke up the next day with a taste lingering somewhere in the back of my throat. really wonderful stuff.

Cask in Blackfriars. This was a special that Jon boy got in for me on the fly without telling me, had it straight after venting, a day after venting and 2 days after also, amazing the way it has developed. Pours like SN Bigfoot, aroma is bursting with american aroma hops to start with, however as it developes the caramalt shows a big presence, infact by the end you’d have mistaken this for a barley wine easily. Taste is wonderfully balanced, yes its very sweet due to the massive caramalt presence, however the american hops are excellent also, itsa pritty full body, but still dangerously drinkable.This for me is infact an american hoppy barleywine rather than an imp ipa, but either way its such an awsome beer, and im very very happy indeed about the fact i have another 8 gallons of the stuff for tonight.