Alchemist

Bottle shared in Canary Wharf - picked up from GBBF I think. Aged the better part of 20 years, I believe. Pours clear brown with a small, foamy off-white head. It's a bit like an oude bruin, emphasis on old, with notes of earth, leathery berries. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Not bad overall. Has aged reasonably well.

Bottle split at the L6 Tasting Krismass Karnage Tasting, thanks to LKS, 19/12/19. Dark mahogany brown with a beige cap. Nose is sweet malts, dusty fruits, baking powder, brown sugar, tangy fruit rinds, hint of brett. Taste comprises fruit cake, vinous touch, sweat, leather, dusty fruits. Medium plus bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Hasn't aged too badly.

Bottle shared at the Columbus tasting 19/12/2019. Many thanks to LKS. A clear nut brown coloured pour with a halo beige head, Aroma is earthy brett, pineapple, lemon, citrus, bretty funk. Flavour is sour, semi sweet, woody, brown , . Good, tangy, green apple. Brown sugars. . Ok . Aged pretty well, if a bit infected.

Murky nut brown with golden highlights. Aroma of plums, dates, sultanas, and molasses. Sweet and sour palate with fruity (cherry, plum) depths. Oily. Rounded flavours - you can tell it’s had a few years to come into form.

Very dark brown-amber, hazy; good yellow-brownish head. Nose of portwine, tannin & woody esters, wild mushrooms, alcohol, slightly soapy. Woody bitterness in the taste, hops too, tannines indeed. Rather raw. Dark molasses & burnt sugar. Retronasal even more bitterness: ink and chicory. Extremely well-bodied, dry-out effect. Alcohol obvious but not overwhelming. Aftertaste with very earthy flavours. Something has been tried. The expectations were high. But it quite didn't work out. It turns out quite raw. Shocking wood, nearly woodstripper. But as for the fine esters one would have hoped for...