8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle split at the optimal climatic conditions tasting, Hazlemere, thanks to Leighton 11/08/21. Rich mahogany brown with a good sized beige cap. Nose is toffee, dried fruits, biscuit, brown sugars, dark malts, light spice. Taste comprises fruit cake, toffee, bitter sweet bite, glazed fruits, dark malts, dates. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced rising boost. Solid BW with a good bitter edge to balance out the sweetness.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at Cloin's - picked up from an online dealer. Pours a little unclear deep red-brown with a small, foamy khaki head. Really nice, rich malts, hearty toasted sugars, lots of stewed semi-dark fruits, raisins, prunes, cherries, figs, plums, dates - the works. Also some brown sugar, fruitcake, bread. Full bodied, oily and chewy, with fine carbonation. Warming finish, more densely packed malts, lots of fruity accents, toffee, hefty fruitcake. Quite rich. An excellent sipper.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at Colin's place. Thanks. An attractive deep copper amber coloured pour with a lasting light tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, chewy toffee, apple, candy apple boozy fruit cake. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, sticky brandy snap sugars. Caramel, candy apple, boozy fruit cake. Palate is medium sweet, moderate carbonation. Sticky.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

11th August 2021
Tasting at Chez Cloin. Thanks to Tips. Light haze on this amber beer, bubbly pale tan head. Smooth palate, semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Smooth sweet malts, a minor creamy sweetness. Marmalade and citric peel hops, rich. Mild spice and some dank ripe fruits coming through on the back end. Decent straight up BW, will hold up for a few years yet.

7.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

light brown mahogany color. Stewed tangerines with cinnamon, cherries and prealeans and milk chocolates. Semisweet. Low carbonation. Full bodied. Medium bitterness. Very nice.

8

keg at friends and family session 1 2020. deep red brown.. thin tan lacing... soft sweet caramel toffee fruit nose.. juicy sweet caramel toffee fruit.. big sweet juice caramel toffee malts.. big sweet juicy fruit.. massive sweet caramel toffee fruit.. big jsmmy fruit

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Nose is rich candied fruits, toffee, brown sugar, very fruity, apple, toffee apple, hint of pear drops. Taste is brown sugar, syrup, malt, pear drops, sugar, sugar and more sugar. Hints of strawberry, touch of marmalade, and hop bitterness, but the overwhelming taste is brown sugar and syrup. It really strongly reminds me of JW Lees Harvest Wines, which makes sense given the Manchester Connection, to the extent I think it's deliberate. But I think it suffers the same issue of over sweetness of that beer. I'd probably like it far more after a half decade or so in the cellar.

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Strong boozy and chewy with a good amount of residual sweetness, clean and tasty very malt forward, not bitter. Marble Manchester

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Red brown colour with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have sweet and sticky candied red fruits. Some toffee apple.