Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 3

Cask at Archibald Simpsons. It pours clear deep brown with a thick, fluffy tan head. The aroma is muted, bitter - sweet, cacao nibs, coffee, malt loaf and some dried fruits. The taste is quite sour and puckering initially, dried fruits and berry, tangy raspberry, some acidity, earthy roast in the backdrop, tannin, rawness, cacao nibs and coffee beans with a kinda astringent finish. Light body and moderate, fluffy cask carbonation. Yeah, that's not what they were aiming for. Couldn't finish my third..... Bleuggghhhh.