8

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

Bottle thanks to Dan. It pours cloudy deep purple with a thick tan head. The aroma is sweet - sour, juicy, tangy, plum, fizzy, candy, sugary, jammy, dirty, d&b and Dr pepper. The taste is crispy, dry, snappy, minerality, juicy, sole acidity, dirty, juicy, prune, date, plum, date, fizzy candy, boozey warmth, some acidity, dirty, warming, D&B, granny smith apple, cola, and more booze with a drying, toothy with a drying finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Fulsome and moreish. Impressed.

7

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

27th April 2023
Opaque dark purple beer, small yellow lish tan head. Smooth palate, airy and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Soft creamy malts. Mellow berry fruits, a very mild tartness develops on the back end. Fairly dry finish. Nice enough.

8.5

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

Bottle, 750 ml shared with others in Ambasada. Dark brown with tan head. Nice berries, plums, some cocoa, earthy, nice sourness, bit funky, barrel. Medium bodied. Liked this more than I thought I would.

8.5

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

Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from Red Hand. Pours brown with a billowing, frothy pink-khaki head. Lightly sweet with sturdy acidity, leathery dark fruits, sturdy funk, earth, old wood, lemony tang. Medium bodied with delicate, massaging carbonation. Quenching finish, fairly dry, a bit of toasted oak, more old leathery dark fruits, dried berries, earth, light roast, good funk. Nice depth and quite drinkable given the ABV. Excellent.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle sample at a tasting at Porter & Sons. Reddish brown, beige head. Currants, a bit phenolic, licorice, funk, malt, sour and bitterish, a bit of alcohol.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Panda thanks to Fergus: Poured dark brown with a tan head. Aroma is funky, malty, fruits, oaky, woodsy. Taste is tart blackcurrant, oaky, tangy, underlying malts, funky finish.

9.2

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle at home picked up from BEER:shop St Albans. A mostly clear reddish chestnut brown coloured pour with a lasting fine mid tan head. Aroma is nice layered jammy red berries, leather, brown bread, mellow funk, some vinous funk, bark, woody funk, super complex. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, tart funk, red vinous funk, leathery, funky woodland fruit, lemon rind, horsey funk. Super complex, Palate is semi sweet and sour, fine prickly carbonation, super dry finish. Really complex

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Very dark brown color with a purple haze. Slight gusher. Roast and blackberries in the aroma, sweet, roasty flavor with blackberries and moderate, but persistant sourness. Tannines. Surprisingly well balanced.

8

Marjane, kuiv, funky, röst, põldmari, hapu, alksi katab hästi. Hea. 3.8

7

Dziki flanders. Mniam