Can. Purple red color. Berries, earthy notes, tannines and chocolate in the aroma and flavor. Sweetish. Odd, but drinkable.

0.44 l can from 'Ace Drinks', canned in December 2019. Hazy, ruby with a large, slightly fluffy, slowly diminishing, pinkish white head. Slightly sweetish, gently yeasty-spicy and quite fruity aroma of hay, clove, red berries and some grains. Slightly sweet, moderately sour, quite fruity and gently yeasty-spicy taste of clove, Belgian candy, red berries some grains and a touch of hay, followed by a short, gently bitter, a little tart, quite dry, rather yeasty-spicy and a bit boozy finish. Medium body, minimally astringent and rather effervescent mouthfeel, lively carbonation. Really pleasant beer, tastes pretty Belgian but with a nice fruity twist. Just a bit too boozy, unfortunately, other than that a welcome variation from all those NEIPAS and Pastry Stouts.

Pours dark red, redpink head, which is very stable. Intense scent, berry's and earthy. Taste is full, berries, mild earthyness. Bitter, dry, phenolic. Not exactly my thing, but executed nicely.

Can from Left Field Beer, Solihull. Tart with with some sweetness to it and dry champagne yeast. Underlying earthiness. Opaque dark ruby/purple. Attractive foamy pink-purple head. Medium bitter. Tang tart sour edge. A hint of Vimto-esque sweetness in there too. Light-medium bodied. Slick verging on creamy. Flat-average carbonation. Develops some chalkiness into the long dry finish. I remember the previous Prizefighter beer just didn't impress me but this one works for me. Dry and tart but fruity..

Strong saison with chokeberries and fermented with champagne yeast, basically a fruited version of Prize Fighter of Antiquity, from a beautiful can depicting the brewery's 'mascot' dinosaur. Initially inches thick, very foamy, pillowy, slowly thinning and eventually opening, lilac coloured head on a misty deep ruby red beer with purplish glow - a pretty sight for sure. Aroma initially dominated by sharp carbon dioxide (like when opening a bottle of artificially carbonated water), but this quickly retreats to make room for impressions of rosé champagne, red chokeberries indeed but in a rather straightforward way (concentrate?), some berry skin but also elderberry syrup, blueberry crumble and strawberry ice cream, red apples, hints of vanilla, dried dandelion leaves, roses, cream, radish peel. Onset packed with chokeberries with elderberry- and strawberry-like aspects, fleshy and creamy, more like jam or coulis than 'real' chokeberries and therefore far less tart and astringent than expected as well; lively carb, smooth mouthfeel, thinner than one would expect at this ABV. Relatively restrained in both fruit sweetness and fruit acidity but still maintaining its juiciness till the end, over a light bready malt backbone and into a finish that adds more breadiness from the champagne yeast, along with a 'dark green leaf'-ish bitter aspect accentuated by a hoppy note and subtle berry skin wryness. A faint glow of warming alcohol can be felt at the back, but gently so; ends bready, fruity in a not very 'expressive' way and bitterish. Chokeberries are commonly used in Eastern Europe but far less familiar in Western Europe, so this choice of fruit is at least an original one for an English craft brewery, but the end result tastes very different from what I was expecting; needs more outspoken fruitiness and 'wildness', also in view of the saison intentions. Very slick, smooth 'designer beer' for hipsters and admittedly both the chokeberries and the champagne yeast add their respective flavours in a non-ambiguous way, but the beer that sits underneath, seems to lack a bit in structure, body and depth. Bit weird, in all, but certainly not unpleasant.