Beer flower loaf

At first nosing we detected roasted red apples with golden syrup, watermelon boiled sweets and freshly baked soda bread slathered in honey, plus subtle notes of breakfast cereals dusted with icing sugar, sultanas and citrus marmalades. With water we found it became much more floral, with heady wafts of garden centres, geraniums and hints of young calvados, apple schnapps, crystallised orange peel and heather ales. The palate opened with a lovely mix of pears, apples and boiled lemon sweets, followed by herbal cocktail bitters and sweet cereals leading to notes of foaming milk stout. With water we found Irish coffee, fig rolls, citrus teas and fruity chewing gum. Matured in a bourbon hogshead for 12 years before being transferred to a second fill ex-oloroso hogshead.