Bottles shared in London - big thanks to Paul and Jack.

Vintage 2011. Pours clear golden brown with a bubbly khaki head. The nose has lightly toasted bread, ripe fruits, fig, leather. Medium sweet flavor with lots of leathery fruits, earth, toasted grains, faint ash and cocoa. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes with more toasty bread, faint metal, earth, toffee. Not bad. (3.6)

Vintage 1991. Pours clear light brown with a slight, bubbly white head. A fair bit of oxidation in the nose, some caramel, leather. Medium sweet flavor with a bit of tobacco, rich figs, bread, mellow alcohol. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly warming finish with lots more fig, date, bread. Certainly some age, but very nicely nuanced. (3.8)

Vintage 1985. Pours clear brown, darker than the previous vintages, with a bubbly tan head. Nice aroma with rich burnt crackers, bread, toffee, faint cocoa. Light to medium sweet flavor with a bit of burnt pine, slight metal, burnt toast, grain, toffee. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Fairly bitter on the finish with more pine, earth, ashy cocoa, dried berry, so e beat-up leather. Pretty interesting. (3.6)

Vintage 1977, batch 6. Pours clear, light brown with a few bubbles for a head. Mellow aroma, suggestions of bread and caramel, grain. Light sweet flavor with some tangy berries, earthy bitterness, oily fruits, bitter grain, caramel. Medium bodied, chewy, with soft carbonation. Finishes with bready malts, more caramel, some toffee, light berry, grain. Not bad overall, especially given the age. (3.4)

Bottle from Boise Coop. Nice pour, initial airy head which subsides to a tight beige head. Heady aroma of malt and peat, taste moreso, with some added caramel. Earthy, cloying finish. Nice!

Bottle from Favourite Beer Cheltenham. Deep almost black colour with a tan head. Dried and spiced fruit aroma with a dark toffe sweetness. Taste also has the sweetness, with more dried fruit.

Bottle from a trade. Thanks minutemat! Dark brown, beige foam. Medium carbonation. Sweet with notes of cocoa, dark chocolate, caramel. Rather dry bitter finish. Well balanced. Good!

Bottle. Pours deep dark mahogany, with a creamy head. Aroma is nice roasted malts, with bread and toffee. Medium body with creamy texture, and soft carbonation. Flavour is sweet roasted malts with bread and toffee, with nuts and dark fruits, as well as some dry burned wood sticking through the finish.

Toffee, vinegar, toejam, and oak smell, thankfully not strong. Clear chestnut brown, medium tan head. Oak and toffee. Finishes with charred oak. Medium body, cask-like softness. Excellent balance. I don’t know what is going on with the aroma, but the beer tasted fine. Maybe it was my glass.

Had this months ago. Lighter shade of dark brown, a bit of foam. Aroma is sweet, sticky, caramel, coca-cola. Quite nice, reveals some barleywine character. Taste is not so sweet, burnt sugar, caramel, dryly sweet without excess sweetness. Aftertaste is dry. Remind me upgraded version of Innis & Gunn. Definitely Scottish. Slow drinker but has actually some good drinkability.

Bottle at home. Pours dark brown, nose is nutty, chocolate, taste is similar, toffee.