Poured into a mug, the appearance was a dark red almost brown color with a white rocky foamy head. Some stringy lace.
The aroma had some roasted malts, clean and sweet touching some caramel, toffee and nuts, light dark fruits and some apples. Mild milk chocolate, sly vanilla. And then some citrusy crisp hops.
The flavor touches the sweet side initially and then picks up portions of some controlled bittering hops. It’s there, I can taste it. Shows some effort to want to blend, but mostly stays apart. Some clean balancing roasty malts and bitter hops try to blend into the aftertaste. Quick malty sort of dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Moderate carbonation. ABV felt right.
Overall, I think I drank it at the right time for an Autumn seasonal, drink last year’s batch up now, I don’t think this will last much longer.

Tap at Gallow’s Bird, Espoo. Originally rated 14112011. Colour is reddish brown with small head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, sweetness and roasted malts.

(Bottle) Reddish brown colour with dense, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of dark bread, ryvita, dried fruit, toffee and a touch of orange peel. Malty, roasted taste with crisp-bread, dried fruit, brown sugar, chocolate, a touch of cacao, orange and a gentle citric bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a touch of sweetness. Well balanced and quite nice.

Bottle. Brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is hoppy, fruity with some citrus. Flavour is slightly bitter, rather sweet.

On tap at the proeflokaal, delft. Thin creamy tan head. Clear amber pour. Slightly hoppy aftertaste. Tasty.

500 ml bottle courtesy of RoNo. Pours dark reddish brown with a rather small frothy and bubbly offwhite head that quickly dissipates while leaving some lacing on the glass. Smell is tiny sweet, tiny sour and tiny metalluc with dark bread, grapes, orange zest, burnt caramel, caraway, toasted malts, chocolate, grass, toffee and pine. Taste is tiny sweet, slightly bitter, tiny sour and slightly metallic with caramel, orange zest, roasted malts, grass, red currants, dark grapes, liquorice root, bitter chocolate, plums and toffee. Mouthfeel is slightly crisp, watery, very tiny tart and light bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and slightly bitter with dark bread, orange peal, caraway, liquorice root, pine and grass.

clear brown, small white head. roasted malts, notes of wood, coffee, faint flowery hoppy balance. flavor is roasted malts, flowers, coffee, ends malty sweet and flowery hoppy.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden amber with a small tan head. Aroma is mild toasted malty and light grassy hoppy. Solid malty, caramelish and toasted. Dry and toasted caramelish malty finish.