Pours black, no head.Nose shows caramel, chocolate, peated malt, whiskey, vanilla, coconut, roasted malt and soft booze.Flavours include woody oak, peated malt, roasted malt, soft booze, soft bourbon and a sweetness that melds with the booze.

Can, ~13C. Black with a wisp of tan head that's soon gone. Legs! Brooding aroma with some lightening top notes: big roast, coffee, whiskey, blackberry reduction, spices. Just slightly fumy, really doesn't smell like a monster, more approachable with hints of rumbling depth. Full bodied but only a bit syrupy with low carbonation. Layers of mocha, dark sugars, the sea and fudge before roast and some pine and spicy whiskey creep up enough to finish things along with rather indistinct bitterness. Good for a silly strong.