Sweet pumpkin pie essence enhanced by enticing cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and clove spicing. But murky grain-hopped sterility and pedestrian sour citrus reminder hamper black currant riptide to astringent gourd finish.

Horrid cabbage-sewage sniff off-putting for impossibly whitish yellow-hued clear bottled ‘malternative’ lightweight. Honeyed lemon tartness reveals hard-candied sugared cider scheme (thankfully superceding putrid waft), settling to fizzy lime soda delicateness with grassy hop backing. Brewery defunct: 2005.

Trite clear-bottled 2.9% alcohol malt beverage saturates sticky Orange Krush-like soda theme with artificially sugared corn malting. Cereal-grained spine lacks strength to hold back sodium astringency.