Schooner on tap at Club Rivers, Riverwood. Red ale with a foamy white head. Nose is light fruit and malt. Good body, flat mouthfeel. Dark fruit taste followed by dark burnt caramel and raisins. Gets better as it warms, some spice emerges.

From a 500ml bottle on 5/5/2019 (shared by Butz with thanks). Pours a deep red amber with a small to medium head. Has a quite malty aroma of caramel and toffee, with some dark fruit and a touch of rum. The flavour follows suit - caramel and toffee malt, and dark and dried fruit. The bitterness is moderate to firm. Full bodied with moderate carbonation. An enjoyable biggish brew.

[8/17] Bottle. Deep reddish amber with an inch of cream to beige head. Aroma is lusciously malty but lighter than expected - there’s toffee and a touch of chocolate, light biscuit, floaty citrus, hints of dried fruit where often in this kind of thing there’s some stewed fruit. 7+ Smooth, fullish texture. Fairly sweet with strong bitterness. On the palate there are some minor stewed notes (peach, prune) mingled with some passionfruit underneath the grapefruit. Dries out a little at the (increasingly) bitter finish, leaving nice herbal and citrus things to linger. Fine finish. These big hoppy ambers are not really my sort of thing, but this is very good. Not a sipper nor a beer that hides its strength: a strongish drinking beer. [3.8]

[4/18] Picked up again assuming it was old, thinking of it as a strong ale that's well hopped rather than a hop driven "red IPA". But you'd have to guess they've brewed it again because the hops are pretty damned pungent. A thumping good beer.