Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.Clear dark brown colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, light coffee. Flavour is light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, chocolate malt, dark roasted, coffee. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110828]

Bottle. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocoalte aroma. Roasted malty chooclate flavor with hoppy hints. Has a roasted malty bitter chocolate finish.

12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown to almost black with a deep amber hue and a huge brown head. Aroma is mild fruity, light yeasty and caramelish to roasted dark malty. Light metallic, yeasty, fruity, dark malty flavoured. Bitter, light metallic and lingering fruity into the finish.

Bottle. Very dark brown with medium beige head. Flaovur is roasted malts, chocolate, dry, bitter, hops and fruit.

Bottled. A black beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet and acidic from the rosted malt with notes of roasted malt and so sauce.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Pours a clear black with a reddish hue and a beige head. Hard roast aroma, slightly tart dark dried fruit. Medium body, hard roast and dark dried fruits – again a slight tartness. Malt bitter finish. 230711

clear broqn, small white head. Sour and tart aroma, almost citrussy, but also sweet dark fruity. Flavor is sweet malty, red fruity, mild.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with a thin feel to it as it pours. A thin film of tan head sits on the surface. Aromas are weak... a faint whiff of chocolate and earth is about all I pick up. Flavor is a little more interesting... chocolate and caramel malts play off each other nicely with just a hint of topsoil after a rain or something poetic like that. It has a kind of creaminess to it (mouthfeel and maybe even a little in the flavor) and ends in a coffee/peat-like bitterness.

Nice slightly hazy, relatively opaque cola coloured body with a darker brown tint and a thin, fast-dying tan head. Aroma of licorice, concord grapes, permanent marker, a touch meaty and some smoked peat - but not much. Medium-bodied; Assertive roasty flavour with caramel and a touch of earth that fades pretty quickly to the permanent marker flavour, aniseed spicey taste and a little funk and cardboard near the end. Aftertaste shows a good complex finish, but still showing some off tastes like meat, mushrooms and a touch of bitter spices. Overall, an okay schwartz, but nothing great - and to me, way too highly rated. That’s okay considering most of the other Short’s beers I’ve had are great - but this one wasn’t. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from the Beer Baron in Livonia, Michigan on 30-April-2011 for US$1.99 sampled at home in Washington on 06-June-2011.

4oz pour at Churchkey. Pours an opaque black with zero head. Inviting aroma of biscuit, crackers, malts, toast, light coffee. Flavor is sweet, toasty, malty, light chocolate, caramel. Medium bodied, dry finish. Very drinkable.