A dark brown beer, a head is big and beige. Aroma has green apples, dried fruits, prune, fig, roastiness. Taste has roastiness, sour green apples, dried fruits, prune, hint of barrel. Medium bodied. Green apples were a surprise, but they fitts very nicely to this beer. Interesting and very good.

Bourbon barrel aged porter of mixed fermentation, one of three new Galea beers and the first one in what is intended to become an ongoing series of experimental brews, each time different ones. Tasted at BCBF. Yellowish beige, mousy, lacing, stable but open head, dark chocolate brown robe with warm-mahogany hue. Aroma of sour plums, caramel, balsamic vinegar, old wet oak wood, blackberries, some bourbon but only very distantly so, coffee grounds, walnuts, dry tree leaves, damp forest floor. Sweet onset (dried figs and blackberries), softly carbonated, quickly becoming more and more tart; nutty malt core, caramelly with a very mild toasty bitterness to it. Fruity, earthy, leafy finish, sour plum and grape notes, astringently dry red wine almost but still softened by the malt sweetness, yeasty and tannic with tree leaf- and forest floor-like aspects, bit dusty. ‘Wild’ indeed – like a 19th-century style porter, especially since the bourbon (Buffalo Trace apparently) remains very much at bay and hardly noticeable; subtle, credible, complex while still maintaining high drinkability: this is among Galea’s most impressive achievements so far, in my opinion. Makes one wonder what more will come out of this Legio series.