From a bottle. Pours a clear cola with a thin tan head. Aroma of toffee and caramel. Flavors are moderately sweet pit fruits and banana. Light bodied but pretty tasty.

Bottle @ home. Nice deep dark red to amber-brown color, small to average sized beige head. Smell and taste malts, lightly dark malts, raisins, caramel. Decent body and carbonation. Decent beer.

From Jun 2007

Purchased at the Liquor Shed in Casper.

This pours from 12oz bottle a dark brown with ruby hues and a large head of offwhite foam. After a couple of minutes, it shrinks to a few islands and there's some lacing.

The smell is full of caramel malt and hints that the brew is going to be very sweet.

The taste has that caramel malt flavour up front but it's mixed with a dark fruit flavour that has a touch of tartness to it so it's not as sweet as the nose insinuated. Nice. This has a bit of chocolate and it has an almost whiskey taste to it and it combines well with the sweet and the tart...gives this brew a nice balance and makes it very drinkable. The finish is a nicely balanced and the aftertaste is pretty long lasting and very good.

The mouthfeel is silky smoth and the carbonation is on the light side; that, too, makes for some excellent drinkability. It's been a lot of years since I've had this and I don't recall liking it this much. Nothing like a more educated palate. lol

Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.

F: big, tan to tanned, good retention. C: dark brown, clear. A: malty, fruity, caramel, cherries, chocolate. T: malty, dry dark fruitiness, cherries, plums, coffee, toffee, aroma is not awesome but taste is delicious, enjoyed, medium body, medium carbonation, 0,5l bottle from Sainsbury’s supermarket, Camden, London.

From old tasting notes. Brown color, nearly opaque. Tan head. Strong molasses-like aroma with sweet malty overtones. Sweet malt flavor is subdued yet interesting. Slightly sweet malty finish is brief but tasty. Good malty brew with substantial body.

Thanks Mali Perica! :D Clear daaark ruby body, small off white head. Fine malty aroma, primarily raisins, dried apricots, perfumy. Just classy. Taste... Mild maltiness, honey, dark cherry perhaps, vague cardboard, vague... Erm, coriander, bitterish, perfumey, yet interesting. Strange, great mouthfeel, yet some not so great flavors waft in. Bitterish finish. I can see how this stands out among regular English ales.

Dark brown colored, medium- beige head. Aroma is of caramel, dried fruit, some toffee, bit apple, light chocolate. Taste follows the nose with nice caramel and toffee malty notes, apple and dried fruit and light chocolate for the finish, light+ earthy and grassy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, bit oily.