Pours black with ruby highlights and a large, quickly fading, sudsy head.Nose shows chocolate, cloves, sultanas and grassy, earthy hops. Pretty nice.Similar roasty flavours, but not so much sweet malt and sultana characters.Way too aggressive carbonation. Stupidly high. Body feels watery.

Bottle. Very dark brown with a small, dense beige head. Mild but complex aroma of chocolate, plums, doughy yeast, milk. Taste has milky chocolate, dried fruits, grassy bitterness, pudding spices. Odd beer - quite like a milk stout. The yeast in the aroma didn’t really show up in the mouth either in feel or taste when cold, but was there as it began to warm. Dry finish with allspice.