BOTTLE. Opaque deep red-brown, huge frothy mocha head. The fruit (blackberry / raspberry) is pretty strong and dominant. Some spicy fruit seed funk. As the beer warms up you start to get some dark caramel and booze. The taste is thankfully less fruity. The usual dark sugar, dark fruit, fruit cake and spicy alcohol being spiced.. Errr.. Fruited up by the blackberries. Being rather subtle here, they do actually add a value to the base beer. The vanilla is not standing out in any way, but probably does make the flavour a little more round and mellow. It is a very smooth and rounded beer, and the fruit mostly does good, just wish it didn't smell that strong.

DRAFT. Lots of fruit and jam upfront, then it's the same good old Quad. As the temperature grows, the malts fight back.