Bottle from Blue Glass, Bedford. Listed as 9.5%. Mid-brown. Swamp-water murky and flat. Figs, raisins, some caramel and burnt toast in the aroma, hovering over the heady smell of naked booze. Sweet and heavily alcoholic, with a gritty bitter hoppiness giving a more balanced finish. Aftertaste of prunes, toffee and charred meat. Flat, thin body... surprising for a beer of this strength. Not bad but there are issues.

Bottle share with Bob (cheers Bob), consumed at Fairport Annual Reunion, Wednesday 9th August 2017 Amber with a little haze. The nose was like a swimming pool, Loz got mostly chlorine, Loz suggests that this was owing to my not washing out my glass from previous beer, I am unconvinced. Fruity, not getting an awful lot here but quite pokey, fine. A4 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.2