UPDATED: JAN 9, 2022 Cask at Ye Olde Vic, Stockport, sampled June 2016. Pours clear gold with a white head. Aroma: bread, hay, citrus, light pine. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, lemon rind, orange, some minerality, light pine. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

Cask (5%), 1/2 pint by hand-pump at The Malt & Hops, Edinburgh on 23 May 2018: malty, grain aroma, hazy orange amber, protein haze, thin fawn head, micro bubbles, excellent film of fine lacing, rye, grain, orange, toffee flavour, bittersweet malty grain aftertaste.

(cask) clear golden colour with a creamy white head. aroma of floral hops and lavender, with lots of orange peel, some sugar icing and black pepper. flavour is mostly sweatsocks and gorgonzola, with some grapefruit zest, yeast and a medium-bitter herbal-hoppy finish. medium-bodied with soft carbonation.

On cask at Cloisters. Appearance - golden with a decent head. Very slight haze. Nose - oranges and nettles. Peaches. Taste - more of the same. Dry pithy finish. Palate - light to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - usual great balance from Swannay.

Cask at Guildford Arms. It pours clear amber with a decent white head. The nose is toasty grain, cereal, honey, golden syrup and soapy citrus. The taste is bitter - sweet, honeyed cereal, candied grain, jammy fruits, sweet porridge, Heather honey and a touch of soapy citrus with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Sweeter and maltier than I had hoped for, but overall it’s drinkable enough.

1st October 2015
Craft Clerkenwell. Thanks to Leighton. Cask. Bright clear paleish gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry. Decent fine carbonation. Very light pale malts. Mild and sweetish florlaness. Modest citrus. Light jammy finish. Okay.

Cask. Clear golden color, white edge head. Aroma of white pepper and caramel. Taste is medicinal caramel.

Cask at CBC Clerkenwell - London. Pours perfectly clear gold with a frothy white head. The nose holds pale bread, hay, pine needles, ripe citrus. Light to medium sweet flavor with woody hops, lightly oily pine, lemon rind, tangerine, mineral flint. Medium bodiednwith fine carbonation. Lightly resinous on the finish, more line, minerals, white bread. Tasty enough.

Cask at Bow bar. Clear golden. Nose is sweetish exotic fruits, juicy, dry toffee. Taste has grapefruity bitterness, floral fruits. Decent.

On cask at State bar a clear golden ale fruity sweet carmel aroma lemon and orange toffee flavour sweet fruits sweet carmel finish