Cask at CP&K Brighton. It pours deep brown, with a thick beige head. The nose is caramel, brown bread, salted caramel, gravy and weirdly enough something that resembles cat-litter. The taste is bitter, leather, roasted malt, touch of chocolate, caramel, burnt tire, meaty, charcoal and toast, with a long dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. So-so.

Cask at Euston Tap, London. A dark red/black coloured pour with a healthy beige head on top. Roasty, chocolate, dark fruit aroma. Tastes roasty, malty, caramel, dark fruit, a little dry. Not bad but certainly not Fynes best effort.

Cask at The Prince of Wales, Aberdeen. Pours clear, red-brown with a tight, creamy tan cap. Gorgeous aroma, all sweet chocolate, roasted malts, hints of burnt earth. Decent flavor, though not as good as the aroma. Quite a bit of burnt wood, burnt toast, and burnt grass in the flavor. Light to medium sweet. Light to medium in body with fine, smooth carbonation. Dry, gritty bitter finish with charcoal, burnt grass and rubber, subtle bittersweet cocoa. Decent beer overall.

On tap during launch at Cloisters, Edinburgh. Pours opaque black with a fawn cream head. The nose has interesting notes of blackcurrant and blackcurrant leaf against a delicate dark chocolate note. The taste has more of that blackcurrant intermingled with the expected coffee notes. The palate has a lighter than expected body, with a creamy texture and a clean finish. Overall, this is not what I expected - a good beer but is it a stout. They have their own style - I thought the Sublime was closer to a black IPA, but very good, so maybe they just don’t do really creamy beer.

cask at cloisters ... deep red blaxk ... thin tan head ...soft toffee roast ... sweet roast ... quite a lot of vanilla ... dark malts ... light bitter malts .... soft dark roast.