Flaske 0,5l fra Kjeller 5. Batch(?) L3179. Delt i Skibotn 14 Des 13. Mørk gyldenbrun. Lavt, litt farget skum som varer noen minutter. Litt lacing. Beskjeden karamellaroma. Maken svakt fruktig med litt syrlighet.

Ins Glas ergießt sich ein bernsteinfarbenes Bier mit geringer Schaumkrone. Geruch malzig, Karamell, fruchtig. Geschmack trocken fruchtig, malzig, Karamell.

Poured from a cask on hand at the Inverness airport. Has no aroma to speak of, eery really. Pours with a perfect head, solid as a rock, and a fine brown-copper body. Flavour is a nice sweet malt and hazelnut flavour with a dry finish. Its very tasty and highly sessionable.

Burnley Beer Festival. Mahogany coloured with a small bubbly head and light texture. Has some caramel in its aroma but more of a general bitterness for taste.

Bottle. Clear dark brown with medium off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel and nut. Flavour is malt, caramel, nut, medium sweet, hop and a little bitter.

Bottle @ YNWA, Kolding. Clear brown with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and light nutty. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 190713

Bottle at the Tollhouse, Dalwhinnie. Pours somewhere between amber and chestnut. The nose and taste is very much malt and just a hint of toffee and biscuits. The palate is well balanced if not very exciting - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a decently clean finish. Overall, solid.

Tap at Angleterre, Helsinki. Originally rated 08052012. Colour is copper with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Sweetness, caramel and malts.

4th February 2010
Chelmsford Winter Fest. Clear dark amber beer. Lightly sour - semi raw malt. A little insipid hop. Struggling with this one.

500ml Bottle taken on a sunny but cold winters afternoon (Sat 18th Feb 2012): poured into my ’Abbot Ale’ glass tankard. Lovely looking beer: dull deep brown until held up to the sunlight, it then shows its true colours. A beautiful red body, clear and bright, on top sits a cream coloured foam covering that feels like velvet on the lips. I over cooled the beer, so no smells could be found at first but slowly the aroma of roasted malts began to appear. The flavours in the mouth also took some time to come out because of the coldness: again it was the malts that stood out initially with some hop bitterness towards the end of every sip adding a bite to the taste. Looks like it is a monster beer, but it doesn’t have enough body depth or alcohol content to live up to its first impression. Well carbonated and pleasant enough but could have been so much better with just a little tweeking.