7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Tap - 90ml taster. Very black with a brown head that’s soon at the rim but last there. Aroma of mocha, pears, Port, Muscat. Boozy, but not excessively so. Not all that heavy, a bit of alcohol thinning I guess - low carbonation, perhaps because I got to this one last. Mocha, caramel syrup, fairly strong roasted malt, licorice. Fairly strong bitterness struggles against the sweetness. Not much of a bass note. Fruit flavours get swamped. I guess I didn’t want more of everything.