Fonefan 110415. Orange-brown colour with a beige head. Flavour is sweet, sugar, wood, toffee, spices, malt, vanilla, dried fruits, alcohol . Full body. Nice beer.

Bottle, 375ml corked. A murky reddish brown beer, flat and headless. The aroma is lighlty alcoholic, with caramel, dried fruits and baked apples. Oak and grapes, sweet dessert wine. The flavor is lightly sweetish and toffee-ish, with tannins, alcohol warmth, dried fruits, grape notes, some baked apples and a little bitterness. Full-bodied, sweet and warming with a soft carbonation. Lasting oaked, vinous finish with some caramel, prunes and grapes. Rather delicious this one, pity it doesn’t look much good. 150718

Bottle shared. Pours cloudy brown with a very short lived tan head. Aroma of big oak, vinous notes, cola, caramel, raisins, overripe dark fruit, toffee and butterscotch. Flavour is heavy sweet. Full bodied with moderate carbonation that quickly starts to flatten.

The latest in this series, with a thin, off-white, loose head only retaining around the edges, and a hazy ruby bronze colour. Sweet aroma of marzipan, milk powder, chocolate sauce, banana, cinnamon, cognac, vanilla-like tannins, brown sugar, port, hazelnuts, apple sauce, liquorice, coconut. Sweet but not too cloying taste, soft with low carbonation, almond, banana and overripe pear, hint of candied orange and a lot of ’exotic’ sugars; smooth but full body, vinous, with a thick caramelly, honeyish and biscuity malt sweetness, evolving into a dryish finish of woody tannins (yet less strong than in previous editions), lingering brown sugar sweetness and some warming, port-like alcohol. Marzipan sweetness is strong in this one, and does not get balanced by dry wood effects as neatly as in previous versions - resulting in a beer which is still too sweet and candyish to be taken all too seriously, in spite of the serious intentions.