Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

330ml bottle sophiesbeerstore.co.uk. Pitch black, very thin tan head. Oily palate. Aroma of seaweed, soy sauce, dark vinous fruits, dark chocolate. Body seems a little thin with soy sauce, seaweed, bitter dark chocolate, roasted malts with very faint plummy dark fruits emerging. Bitter linger on the finish. Not quite what I expected, and not really one I'd like to try again.

Bottle from Brew Cavern. Jet black. Aroma malty, treacle, and fruity berry or plum. Taste roasted bitter to sweet full body.

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

330ml bottle. Black with a thin tan head. Aroma is quite smokey, plum, chocolate, roast malt. Taste is very sweet, treacle, plums, chocolate, a bit of smoke, red wine, alcohol. Medium bodied.

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

Pitch black, small mocha head. The aroma dry and funky, a little yeasty, some roast grains but mostly green fruit / walnut skin / pedio tartness almost completely obscuring the malts. UPD. Some really sweet, dark plum / molasses notes start to appear. The tartness is much more like green fruit than infection by now. Taste: big rich dark malt / treacle sweetness, sweet rich prunes, quite a bit of tart winey notes, as well as fruit seed nutty astringency and funk. No strong roast / burned grains or hop bitterness. Quite peculiar, though certainly distinct and interesting.