6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Murky dark brown, low foamy brown head. Light soapy balsamic, roast aroma. Medium light foamy dry body, wood driness, some soap, prune, old apples, interesting, not great.

5.9

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

Brownish. Aroma is apple, some hazelnut, a bit almond, some butter. Taste is sour and slightly melassy, chocolate. Apple finish. Meh.

6.3

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

Bottle, 2016 vintage, feb 2017 release, batch No. 1601, many thanks William! Unclear dark amber color with beige head. Aroma is funky cider, bretts, wood, chocolate, grainy. Taste is earthy, bretts, a touch apples. Very foamy carbonation. Fun, but not well-rounded.

5

Bottle. Dark apple Aroma, a strange and interesting experiment that doesn't quite catch my fancy. Porter chocolate apple notes.

7

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

Poured from 500mL bottle [2016 vintage; Batch No. 1601; aged 1 year]. Dark brown with light beige head. Apple, port, and lots of carbonation upfront; Mild chocolate and roast malt as the initial flavour subsides. Definitely a unique beer with disparate flavours that somehow blend into each other. However, I don't feel the sour or the stout are especially great, so it's ultimately just a well blended above average beer.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

500 c&c from Berkeley Bowl West. Pours dark brown with a huge creamy tan head. Aroma of apple, dark fruit and dark malt/treacle. Med body or so. Flavor is darkish fruits, apple, dark malt, some wood astringency, and mildly tart. Quite mildly. With time passing I think port is detectable. That might have been the dark fruit. Interesting stuff. Apple keeps coming and going. I'd like to think I'm getting Brett notes, but not at all certain.