Pours black with a small, quickly fading head.Aromas include smokey, roasted malt and a faint elderberry-like character.The smoke transfers through as a flavour too, before a mix of sweet berries and acidity rolls through. A bit too far out there for me. Seems like it needs some extra malt or something to fill up the gap between smoke and tartness.

Bottle. Chunk-laded black. Vigorous pour made a light tan head that fades quite quickly to the rim but doesn’t disappear. Aroma of apples, chocolate, smoke, singed grain, weedy herbs, mild funk. Aroma does little to prepare you for a pretty sour initial taste. It’s quite astringent and powerful, but doesn’t obscure the dark and grainy malts underneath. Some mushroom soy. Thinnish, but less so than 4.4% would suggest - quite mouthcoating. Bold but very drinkable.