UPDATED: JUN 2, 2021 Cask at Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford – as Cotleigh Old Buzzard. Pours a dark reddish brown with a small cream head, good lacing and low carbonation. Aroma is creamy with roasted malts. Oddly enough in the mouth the first impression is juicy fruitiness, but that is quickly swallowed by peppers and spices (liquorice, aniseed, olde english spangles). The roasted malts are still there with hints of chocolate and toffee. This is what an Old Ale should taste like.

UPDATED: FEB 27, 2021 500ml bottle from Ransoms in Jersey. Pours dark brown with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of dark chocolate, dark fruits, caramel, toffee & roasted malt. Medium body. Moderate bitter finish.

UPDATED: SEP 13, 2020 Aroma : Deeply toasted sweet toffee malt, a little burnt brown bread toast, some ripe dark fruits with a little fusty damp earth. Taste : Given pleasant aroma the taste is a tad thin. Malty & medium bittersweet, but otherwise short on distinct flavours. Medium to thin texture. A bit disappointing!

UPDATED: AUG 20, 2020 Pours a dark brown colour with a beige coloured head Notes of roasted coffee and roasted toffee caramel and vanilla

UPDATED: MAR 31, 2020 Bottle labelled as Old Buzzard From Roadwater Village Shop. A dark copper colour with a dirty white head. Good malt flavour with lots of notes of leather and oak with hints of smokiness. Not too heavy and very drinkable. Very nice.

UPDATED: FEB 7, 2020 Loved this! Pint with Kieran in the spoons. Classic old ale. Heavy, thick, drinkable with all of these leather touches mixed in with malt and caramel. Pours a deep copper, thick stew like. Lovely flavour boarding on a porter with these coffee touches and old furniture. All the same it's drinkable. Very very smooth. Top notch.

UPDATED: JAN 20, 2020 Poured rich copper body with scummy lace top. Aroma has roasted malts and a hint of leather. Taste is medium sweet with light chocolate and berry notes. Decent bitter finish. Palate is medium bodied oily texture average carbonation and a bitter finish. Needs a real fireside chair to complete the English winter pub experience.

UPDATED: JAN 14, 2020 Bottle from Beers Of Europe. Pours a clear dark mahogany colour with a thin creamy beige head. Aromas of dark fruit, caramel, toffee and burnt bread. Taste is the same notes with some roasted malts, light chocolate, nuts and a lingering hop bitterness on the finish. Light to medium bodied with a very slight oily mouthfeel. Not bad.

UPDATED: JAN 6, 2020 Bottle bought whilst on a visit to Somerset. Poured mid-brown with a small beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, nut, caramel, dark fruit and treacle. Medium sweetness, light to moderate bitterness. Medium body, oily slightly watery texture, average carbonation.

Cask at The Moon Under Water (JDW), in 2012. Deep brown with an offwhite head. Aroma of malt, straw and brown sugar. Fairly sweet, malt dominated flavour with cakey notes.