Bottle. Poured black with thin, fast dissipating tan head. When it’s gone, it looks rather like a cola drink. Strong aroma of raisins and alcohol. Date, prune and raisin notes in flavour, also some alcohol. Lingering middle of the tongue sweetish finish.

This is one of those beers you pass over for years. I didn’t know what I was missing. It has a hearty roasted malt aroma. The flavor is much more interesting with dry malt, more roasted character with some wood, some sugar, fermenting fruit, and a touch of red wine.

500ml bottle Pours out almost black topped with a nice tan head. A nice sweet aroma of chocolate and a little wood. Tast of sweet chocolate and a little coffee. Pretty good Baltic

Sampled from a 16.9 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a small khaki head. The aroma was sweet and malty with hints of chocolate and molasses. The flavor was tangy, almost fruity with a sweetish malt base and hints of chocolate.

Roasted malt aroma, fairly dark roasted, accompanied by a little chocolate. Dark brown color with a transient tan head. Starts malty sweet, followed by really dark roasted flavors, something of a molasses character. Suggestions of dark fruit, but not finding chocolate. Rather full mouthfeel. The finish is mostly malt residue, not finding any bitter. Although there is a chocolate character remaining!

Pours deep mahogany into an English pint. Mocha pancake head slowly recedes to skim surface. Tangy coffee aromas. Thin and sour with a lasting sweet espresso finish. Burning alcohol. Then I had some sausage -- points go way up...

Brown bottle, 500 ml, best before 15.09.07, savoured on March 18 2007; eye: black, opaque, beige head, no effervescence; nose: roasted malt , caramelized malt, coffee, vanilla, smoke; mouth: in that order, lots of sugar, roasted malt, caramelized malt, smoke, molasses, malt supports well the various tastes, finale in caramelize malt with a hint of acrid roasting, creamy texture, not much carbonation, quite sweet, slight bitterness, medium body, syrupy texture; overall: good FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 500 ml, meilleure avant le 15.09.07, savourée le 18 mars 2007; oeil : noire, opaque, mousse beige, pas d’effervescence; nez : malt torréfié, malt caramélisé, café, vanille, fumée; bouche : beaucoup de sucre, malt torréfié, malt caramélisé, fumée, mélasse, malt qui appuie bien les goûts, finale en malt caramélisée avec une pointe de torréfaction âcre, texture crémeuse, peu carbonatée, assez sucrée, très légère amertume, corps moyen, texture sirupeuse; en résumé : bonne

This porter poured a dark black colouir with a bi-coloured head. Frothy at the bottom and creamy on the top. To the nose there is cocoa, ripe fruit and wine. First taste was smooth and roasty with flavours of chocolate and roasted malt with a little hop finish. The palate is slighly bitter with the roast lingering through to the end.

Bottled. A deep red beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma is sweet with primary notes of roasted malt. The flavor is sweet and again with roasted malt being most dominant, and this carries all the way thru to the end.

Bottle. Dark chestnut color with a caramel colored head. Caramel malt aroma. Rich caramel/toffee flavor with a bit of roast, spice, and slight hops. Lingering caramel/dried fruit flavor with some sweetness. Slight alcohol presence.