24/8/2019. Bottle from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds and shared at the Ipswich & North Essex beer share. Pours very dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma of toffee, dark fruit, fruit cake, milk chocolate, alcohol and wood. Medium plus sweetness, light to moderate bitterness. Full body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Very good, everyones favourite at the bottle share.

Bottle from Beer Republic. Lovely aroma of caramel, cookie and vanilla, slight oak. I would swear this smells like bourbon, but the bottle just mentions oak aged and no sign of bourbon. Quite sweet in taste with caramel, cookie and vanilla again. Good complex body, wonderfully balanced. Awesome brew.

Label claims 4 months of oak aging. Small, fast gone yellow head over hazy ruby-chestnut beer. Extremely complex nose with honey, dark malts, alcohol, wine, old barrels, roses, bit of roast, liqueur, and fleeting hint of New World hops. Fantastic balance between sweet portlike wine notes, light bitterish roast and faint fruity acidity, vinous. Diverse fruitesters as banana, plums, red grapes and strawberries steeped in alcohol. Caramel cookies, tannines, black tea. Moderate but present alcoholwarming; feels better carbonated than it looks. Slightly burning MF, rich, voluptuous, well-bodied. Absolutely impressive ale. IMHO more Barley wine than Scotch ale.

2009 vintage. A hazed brown scotch ale with a thin brown head. In aroma, loads of dark fruits, molasses, light soy sauce, alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with dark fruits, plums, molasses, licorice, floral hops and alcohol warmth, 4 years old and still going strong. OttBottShare Dec 15 2013.

Glass, 4-ounce, draught, during the Festibière de Gatineau, savoured on May 25 2013; eye: mahogany, clear, nice beige head, light effervescence, light lacing; nose: malt, bourbon, woody, light alcohol, light caramel, light roasted malt; mouth: malt, bourbon, woody, alcohol, alcohol warmth, light caramel, roasted malt, light pepper, light hops, finale in bourbon with presence of malt, average carbonation, mildly sweet, slightly bitter, lightly alcoholic texture; overall: quite fine FRANÇAIS Verre, 4 onces, en fût, bue lors du Festibière de Gatineau, savourée le 25 mai 2013; œil : acajou, limpide, belle mousse beige, légère effervescence, légère dentelle; nez : malt, bourbon, boisé, léger alcool, léger caramel, léger malt torréfié; bouche : malt, bourbon, boisé, alcool, chaleur d’alcool, léger caramel, malt torréfié, léger poivre, léger houblon, finale en bourbon avec présence de malt, corsé, carbonatation moyenne, moyennement sucrée, très légèrement amère, texture légèrement alcoolique; en résumé : bien bon