Hopfix
Pours a burnished amber colour with dense beige head, modest size with really nice webs of lacing clinging to the glass. Slow bead won't revive the steadily-sinking head that is now a nice creamy crown. Pretty good. Everything's where it should be. Smells interesting. Quite dry and fruity but somehow lacking. A weak fruit flavour with some blackberry and apple notes, slight mustiness and some cakey malt on the back. But yeah, pleasant as it is I find it a bit lacking. Taste is quite malty, a lot of deep caramel notes with English toffee and a slight tartness on the mid, slight fruit notes with some tart apple and then a slightly metallic hop bitterness that isn't particularly strong and is actually met again by malty sweetness on the finish. Has a slight boozey character late, but I find the whole palate still falls a bit short; there's almost a hole in the midst of the palate, even though there's flavour all the way through. A bit of a tang on there, but it lacks boldness, and courage. Courage tastes good. Yeah, nice swilly texture, pretty full with nice viscosity. Probably the best part of this beer is the mouthfeel. But it's good drinking. It's lacking heart, and falls a bit short on flavour but certainly smooth and sessionable.