Pours copper with a large head.Nose shows toasty/bready melanoidin notes, caramel, green apple and sultanas.Flavours include sweet nutty, bready and toasty malt followed by a bit of a dried fruit note.Carbonation is aggressive for this rich a beer.

From a 330ml bottle on 3/10/2015. Pours a dark amber with a big head which disappears quickly. Has a relatively strong malty flavour with a hint of fruit. The flavours include caramel, toffee, chocolate, sweet dark and dried fruit, a touch of spice and the barest hint of booze. Has a fullish body and quite lively carbonation. A quite impressive, very enjoyable brew.

Bottle. Dark amber with an inch of beige head that never quite disappears. Aroma of toasty malt, raisins, citrus peel and a strange grassy/ herbal/ paddocky note I didn’t like at all - there’s less of it in the taste (and after a while in the aroma) and perhaps it’s a rye thing that doesn’t sit right for me (but is there rye here?). Anyway, totally threw me off. Very smooth with lowish carbonation. Sweet dried fruit and toasted bread, just a little bitterness with some orange peel.