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Obtained from the UTOBEER beer shop in the Borough Market, BB 31/12/2006. Bottle-conditioned in a slim 500ml brown bottle. The beer label says “A light yellow beer utilising Fuggles Hops. This ale is conditioned and stored in casks for at least 2 months before being bottled in the old-fashioned hand bottling process.”

Served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.
A: cloudy orangey-yellowish hue coming with a fast effervescent, rocky head not unlike the forming of a soufflé, yet the head breaks down fast afterwards, leaving cottony chunks of foam on the top of an abundant fizzy body.
S: lemony-citrus and lightly sour raw pine-apple aroma of hops with a touch of saltiness, on top of resinous, sharply-woody, and slightly musty (damp cardboard-paper) smell, which is initially strong but softens gradually (thankfully). In a sense it smells pretty much the same as the brewery’s Steelers, although a different hop aroma is imparted and in this one maltiness is much weaker.
T: pretty sharply fizzy upfront on the palate, followed by mild chest-nutty malts and musty woody flavour, while the citrus hops are much weaker than the nose and rather subdued by the sharp yeastiness at the front; a hint of herbal bitter-sweetness (a bit like licorice) in the moderate finish.
M&D: like Steelers, this beer is also very gassy (more like soda water) and sharp on the mouthfeel, and overall the body is too light as is the flavour to my liking. I guess I’m wrong to have disturbed the yeast sediments at the bottom of the bottle, but they simply are highly unsettled and hard to avoid when pouring anyway~~ This is another beer from Warcop brewery desperately in need of better control of bottle-conditioning, IMO.